Re: WDSC for Linux...

   Scott hit the nail on the head with LSB, if they build on that standard
   and distro XYZ is compliant everything should just work.  Further with
   install managers on modern distros if the package is an RPM the deps can
   be handled by the installer without much user intervention.  There is
   however another option separate the iSeries stuff from eclipse and offer
   as downloadable(with signon requirement) plugins to iseries customers(this
   might be more difficult to do than write).  Just my 2 bits.

   AGlauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

 Scott Klement wrote on 01/11/2006 12:59:46 PM:

  

 Any chance that there will be a WDSC version released for Linux
      

 desktop?
  

 That means that IBM can't just "support Linux" they have to support lots
    

  

 and lots of different environments.  Linux software usually solves this
 problem by providing you with source code that configures itself based
    

 on
  

 the various tools you have installed, and then compiles itself as
 appropriate. For the very popular distributions, pre-compiled versions
    

 may
  

 be provided to save you the time of re-compiling.

 IBM, however, doesn't want to make WDSC open source.  So they'd have to
 maintain every desktop environment.
    

 That's a really good point, and probably one of the weaker points of
 GNU/Linux.

 Here's an alternative: IBM could just choose one distro to support - say
 Red Hat.  I've never used RH, but I'd be happy enough if they simply said
 "WDSC works on Red Hat.  If you want to use another distro, YMMV.  Here
 are the dependancies: <big fat list of dependancies>."

 That way, I can choose to use Red Hat if painless installs are that
 important.  Or - and here's the beauty of open source platforms - I could
 beg, borrow and compile all the dependancies on my chosen distribution,
 and I'm off to the races!

 Even better, if IBM could manage to confine dependancies to libraries
 included in the Linux Standard Base, they would be able to support myriad
 distros in one shot.  I guess FreeBSD might get left out in this case -
 does BSD have something like the LSB?

 
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