I added Solaris 7 packages back at 0.7.0 or 0.7.1. They
are available on our web site where you'd download any
other binary package.
> Maybe we could get a few voulenteers to make packages for Solaris, IRIX,
> etc. A graphical installer would comparably be a waste of effort. I don't
> have the statistics to back me up, but 80% of the current UNIX market for
> AbiWord is probably Linux. But I'll say it's 50% just to give in to any
> possible doubt. AbiSource already has binary packages made for all glibc
> Linuxen (and there's really no point in making binaries below glibc - if
> people want to use AbiWord they should be willing to upgrade to versions
> of essensial system libraries that are at least ~2-3 years recent), and
> FreeBSD. FreeBSD and Linux compose a pretty large sector of the market.
> Let's say in 6 months there will be packages for Solaris, IRIX, and
> Net/Open BSD. There goes pretty much the whole UNIX market.
I guess I really don't see what the problem with a graphical
installer is. I don't plan on dumping the existing package support
(deb, rpm, slp, tgz static, tgz dynamic, solaris pkg, etc.)
for a Grand Unified Graphical Installer any time soon. But if
one exists, I don't see a reason not to use it.
Personally, I'm happy with Debian's package manager, but RPM gets
the job done, and I even wrote a shell script for our tarball
installers. I seem to use that one more than anything... but
if someone wants to spend some time making a nice looking graphical
installer, more power to him.
-- Shaw Terwilliger