[Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

Tue Nov 29 16:09:41 CET 2011

Thorsten van Lil skrev 29.11.2011 15:44:
+> Am 29.11.2011 14:17, schrieb Thomas Backlund:
+>> Robert Fox skrev 29.11.2011 13:24:
+>>> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:20 +0100, nicolas vigier wrote:
+>>>> You are free to try to help teamviewer fix their package to make it work
+>>>> on Mageia, you can already do it now, there's no need to have a voting
+>>>> system to consider it.
+>>>>
+>>>
+>>> Sorry Nicolas - I would if I knew how, but unfortunately I am not a
+>>> packager nor am I a developer with intimate knowledge of Mageia - I am
+>>> simply a power user who enjoys testing the latest (cauldron) and giving
+>>> feedback.
+>>>
+>>
+>> Ah... and there it is...
+>>
+>> This is how most threads like this ends up...
+>>
+>> Many users seems to forget this is a community driven distribution,
+>> so if you want something no-one of the current maintainers care
+>> about, you need to do the work, and stop expecting others to do
+>> it for you (unless you pay them)...
+>
+> I don't think that he is "expecting others to do it" for him.
+
+Well, it wasn't directed only to Robert, hence the "Many users..."
+
+> As Robert Fox said:
+> "All I am asking is that Mageia recognise the need for the end
+> users to co-exist with their Mac / Winblows counterparts, and that
+> certain software is unavoidable.  Any efforts made to help get such
+> software to work properly with our distribution would be considered
+> positive."
+>
+
+We already do, as pointed out by Romain earlier in this thread.
+But it does not mean we have to bend over backvards to do it since
+we are first and foremost promoting open source.
+
+> So, if I understood him right, a how-to would be enough for him.
+> Three possible solutions came to my mind, to solve this issue:
+> 1. We write a documentation for, which has to be translated in each
+> language.
+> 2. We provide a get-teamviewer package (as for skype). I guess there
+> would be a script in it, that does the needed steps? However, a packager
+> would be needed for it, who build and maintain it.
+> 3. We take care, that the provided Mandriva package on the Teamviewer
+> website works properly in Mageia. Due to my limited knowledge I can't
+> estimate the effort for that possible solution.
+>
+
+Well... "We" is still the above mentioned community, so someone still 
+has to do the work...
+
+And in Roberts case he also stated he knows how to look things up on the 
+net and figure things out.. so the next logical step then would
+be to document the findings, stick it on wiki, and voila...
+
+a member of the community ("We") did the work, and the whole community
+can benefit from it. and "We" didn't even need to be a packager.
+
+and maintaining pages on the wiki is also valuable work for the 
+community. so... many ways to help...
+
+--
+Thomas
+