Krita portable.

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tue, 1 May 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 14:11, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
>> I noticed that out of the box, there's no git and so on, and that the cmake
>> version is pretty outdated.
>>
>
> CentOS is a bit outdated compared to, say, Fedora. But not outlandishly so:
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=centos
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian
>
> Packages such as cmake are not shown on those pages, but most other
> dev packages are comparable. Fedora ships with GCC 4.7 (the latest),
> Debian with 4.6.3, and CentOS with 4.4.6.

Simon specified CentOS 5, though -- so I'm playing with that. The cmake
turns out to be new enough, but the Qt definitely isn't :-).

I'm compiling Qt right now.

>> Would a standalone tgz package of Krita be enough? I think we can create
>> that. Getting an rpm into one of the extra repos might be trickier, we need
>> to find a volunteer/sponsorship for that.
>>
>
> Once there is a standalone tgz, then I can ask on the Fedora and
> CentOS lists if anyone is interested in being that volunteer.

Oh, that would be great.

Boudewijn