[Releasing] Current installer issues

[marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com]

On 11/07/2012 06:04, ext Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 08:56:05 AM ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On terça-feira, 10 de julho de 2012 03.17.41,
>> jason.mcdonald at nokia.com wrote:
>>> - seems to depends on wrong version of libicui18n.so.42 (should
>>> be version 48 for ubuntu 12.04 and 44 for 11.10)
>>
>> Ugh!
>>
>> I forgot that the ICU people took the same library class with the
>> OpenSSL and Boost people. At least the OpenSSL people have learned
>> and have finally reached 1.0.
>>
>> We need to statically link to ICU for the package or we need to
>> ship the library inside it.
>
> Fun, this is going to be an issue for WebKit, too.
>
> Is it a lot of effort to provide different installers for different
> distros?

Not terribly, mainly just to set up new VMs. We currently have Ubuntu 
10.04, 11.10, 12.04, but those are just Ubuntus; then you have the rest 
of them too with all sorts of setups. It's rather a pain with both ICU 
and XCB atm.

-- 
.marius