[Eric] Request: easier install process, please

[Robert Withrow]

I've brought this up before.  Current versions of Eric are unavailable
in the package repos of any distro.  This means it must  be manually
installed, which makes using anything other than old versions a
non-starter in any Enterprise environment.  And Eric seems to always
require dependencies that don't line up with anything in a standard
distro, which again makes it a non-starter in many programming shops
(were they insist on having common package lineups, for very good
support reasons).

Just getting this into things like Ubuntu backports (for example) would
solve all those problems.  Being sensitive to package lineups in key
distros would be an added plus.

Can you do all that manual work?  Sure: I've done it.  But the other 99%
of the market base for this tool won't or can't (because of the
restrictions above).  For the Dans of the world that is no problem: he
didn't spend countless hours developing Eric.  But I would guess (maybe
wrongly) that the people who DID spend those countless hours would like
to see this wonderful tool very widely used.

Dan Bullok wrote:
>
> Just to let you know Detlev, I disagree with just about everything in Arlo's 
> message.  

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Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates
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