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« on: 2011.01.03, 15:28:06 »
I really do not understand some comments and excitements here. I read a lot of eCS related infos since years, follow newsgroups and forums. I think I'm rather well informed eCS end user. As such I do not see why some paint the picture of the end of eCS or threat to leave eCS only cause one very dedicated developer decided to port RPM to eCS. What's wrong if someone spend time on programming/porting software to eCS? Would anyone here pitch about Paul cause he made a wealth of Linux software available for eCS? No, in fact people like Paul have extended the life of OS/2 by years and without such people, most of us would have to left eCS years ago.
Face the facts, eCS can not live without software from Linux. Like it or not. Personally I would prefer native OS/2 software but that game is over. I can not live without apache, squid, sql, svn .... anymore. And so I have to learn some basic about how the linux guys get things working. Other solution would be writing my own web server and all the other software by myself (not serious) or using Windoze and pay Microsoft for there software (no, not in any case), buy a MAC and buy Apple software (not what I would like to afford).
AFAIK Yuri does RPM cause he likes it and he hope someone else likes it too. No one convinces you to use it. If a program developer decides to use a zip archive or a wpi or a rpm package to deploy his software, it's the developers decision. If you do not like it, ask politely the developer or even better, take the application and repack it in the form you like it. Or even better, PAY the developer for his work to pack his software in the way you need it. Getting things for free and pitching around cause you dislike the way you get it is the wrong way I think.
To make things a little bit more concrete - making a wpi package for the first time may take more than a few hours. Of course depends on the complexity of the installation requirements. I f you're experienced with Warpin it may take from 1 hour to 5 or for complex setups even more hours to pack and test it. Warpin documentation is rather good. Only additional hint I may gave, stay away from the GUI tool. So take the chance and pack some software you like as .wpi and upload it to hobbes. No programming skills are necessary, everyone can do it. If you do not like to do it by yourself, in most cases it will take only less than a few hundred Euros to get it packed the way you like it. Why not ask the developer to pack it the way you like it? Why not pay for this? Oh yes, software has to be free, every OS/2 developer has to work for free, has to pack his software in 5 different ways which is sometimes more work as the initial program and a totally boring job, has to address even the most unimportant user wishes, has to develop not was he self likes but someone else wanted to have, ....