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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">The problem is that both .deb files and .rmp files are designed so<br>
that you package the source with instructions on how to compile them<br>
into binaries. But our build process produces the binary packages and<br>
therefore going from there to .deb/.rpm files is very awkward.<br></blockquote><div><br>I thought it was possible to make .deb files from binaries only.<br>But maybe I'm mistaken.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> What would be even better is if raco could create installers (.debs<br>
> for Debian-based distros, .msi/setup.exe for Windows, etc.).<br>
> Although I would also be happy if raco could create the .sh install<br>
> script that is used for DrRacket.<br>
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</div>If you're talking about creating distributions of applications, then<br>
it already does that -- but to make things portable and expected,<br>
these distributions are very simple: tgz/zip/dmg for unix/win/osx<br>
respectively.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Yes, but I was talking about going one step further than this:<br>DrRacket is bundled into a .sh/.exe/.something file.<br>I'd like raco to do the same thing for my own projects, and not stop at the .tgz/.zip/.dmg step, which is still good, but could be better (which obviously requires some time and work).<br>
<br>That would be as portable as DrRacket distributions, wouldn't it?<br>