Across The Distros
Things are going swimmingly right now. As in, I can play multiple Flash videos in multiple Firefox browser tabs with nary a crash nor a thread hang. In fact, I'm feeling so confident about the stability that I'm actually composing this entry while a YouTube music video plays in another tab. Nervously, but still.
I am thinking about the next level-- creating a single binary that can work reliably across multiple Linux distributions. I know this may sound simple, but there are problems that can crop up, which we have been dealing with one by one. This afternoon, I created a build and tried it across several Linux installations we have handy around the office. Here is the success report:
- Gentoo- naturally, since that's the build machine
- Ubuntu
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- SuSE Linux 10.1
I won't bother you with the details of which distros did not work in this impromptu test for fear of starting rumors that we don't plan to support those distros. The task now is to make those distros work just as well.
Comments
OMG... so you are only going to support those 4 distros?? How can you do that.... this is terrible.
heheheee.
Posted by: Steph | August 17, 2006 06:57 PM
Yay!
Posted by: Martey | August 17, 2006 07:01 PM
Why don't you share some part of development process with world community. We would help you in a lot of specific questions with love.
I'm sure, many people read this blog and can contribute with some advices or ideas - if you provide us questions and current problems.
Do not neglect community power ;-)
Make development process at least half-open-sourced. It will speed up things.
Posted by: divan | August 17, 2006 07:04 PM
You certainly don't hear it enough, so thanks again for all your work. Oh, and also for using my distro. for dev. work ;-).
Posted by: Aslvrstn | August 17, 2006 07:04 PM
"I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm ready!" - SpongeBob
Posted by: =DC= | August 17, 2006 07:13 PM
Excellent, I'm glad to see some stability progress. Interesting idea to go with one single self-contained binary. What I would ideally love to see is the open-sourcing of the flash player, but I suppose that isn't happening... yet. ;)
Posted by: Ethan Lofton | August 17, 2006 07:32 PM