Reaction project announcement.

[David Zaragoza]

Hello

I'm pleased to announce the release of Reaction: an aptitude like 
application written specifically for ReactOS, developed in python. The 
project homepage is http://code.google.com/p/reaction/

The project have two goals: to provide a repository of free software 
applications that are known to work decently, i.e doesn't crash, with 
the latest release of ReactOS; And to provide an automated way to 
install a set of applications that make a desktop system, eg. Web 
browser, email client, media player, etc. on ReactOS, something like the 
GNU/Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva and others.

Software freedom is really important to me, that's why Reaction is 
completely free software and the application repository will only have 
free software applications.

There is an installer available at 
http://reaction.googlecode.com/files/reaction.exe If you have some free 
time please check it out, and report any bugs you find to 
http://code.google.com/p/reaction/issues/list

Please remember this is the first release of reaction and it will have 
bugs for sure, so please be patient.

I'll write some documentation this weekend, but if you are familiar with 
aptitude, I'm pretty sure there will be no problem figuring reaction out.

I hope you find it useful.

Regards.
David Zaragoza

ps. Try 'reaction install reactos-desktop' for a bundle of nice desktop 
applications. There are only three applications at the moment, but it 
will grow.

[Marius Przybylski]

Reactos is not linux and will never be. Imitating linux software is thus 
a step in wrong direction.
Python is unacceptable too. It would require us to bundle unnecessary stuff.

David Zaragoza pisze:
> Hello
>
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Reaction: an aptitude like 
> application written specifically for ReactOS, developed in python. The 
> project homepage is http://code.google.com/p/reaction/
>
> The project have two goals: to provide a repository of free software 
> applications that are known to work decently, i.e doesn't crash, with 
> the latest release of ReactOS; And to provide an automated way to 
> install a set of applications that make a desktop system, eg. Web 
> browser, email client, media player, etc. on ReactOS, something like the 
> GNU/Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva and others.
>
> Software freedom is really important to me, that's why Reaction is 
> completely free software and the application repository will only have 
> free software applications.
>
> There is an installer available at 
> http://reaction.googlecode.com/files/reaction.exe If you have some free 
> time please check it out, and report any bugs you find to 
> http://code.google.com/p/reaction/issues/list
>
> Please remember this is the first release of reaction and it will have 
> bugs for sure, so please be patient.
>
> I'll write some documentation this weekend, but if you are familiar with 
> aptitude, I'm pretty sure there will be no problem figuring reaction out.
>
> I hope you find it useful.
>
> Regards.
> David Zaragoza
>
> ps. Try 'reaction install reactos-desktop' for a bundle of nice desktop 
> applications. There are only three applications at the moment, but it 
> will grow.
>
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[Colin Finck]

Marius Przybylski wrote:
> Reactos is not linux and will never be. Imitating linux 
> software is thus a step in wrong direction.

Then why is Downloader/rapps following a similar direction towards a
Web-based software management application?
Linux is not "the evil", and you can't say that everything they invent is
wrong or completely unacceptable for ReactOS.
> Python is unacceptable too. It would require us to bundle 
> unnecessary stuff.

That's true though. Software written in Python won't be included in ReactOS
anytime soon, but I guess the inclusion of that application into plain
ReactOS isn't even the target right now.

Apart from this, it's really nice to see small software projects evolving
around ReactOS!

Best regards,

Colin

[Enrico Bassetti]

Il giorno lun, 07/09/2009 alle 20.58 +0200, Colin Finck ha scritto:
> Then why is Downloader/rapps following a similar direction towards a
> Web-based software management application?
> Linux is not "the evil", and you can't say that everything they invent is
> wrong or completely unacceptable for ReactOS.

IMHO a "software repository" can be very useful when ReactOS will be
"stable" and some (l)user want to use it.
> That's true though. Software written in Python won't be included in ReactOS
> anytime soon, but I guess the inclusion of that application into plain
> ReactOS isn't even the target right now.

Why not? Python is a powerful language (IMHO). There are some
applications written in Py.

Enrico

[Zachary Gorden]

If people want python they can go download it themselves.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Enrico Bassetti [e-mail]:
> Il giorno lun, 07/09/2009 alle 20.58 +0200, Colin Finck ha scritto:
> > Then why is Downloader/rapps following a similar direction towards a
> > Web-based software management application?
> > Linux is not "the evil", and you can't say that everything they invent is
> > wrong or completely unacceptable for ReactOS.
>
> IMHO a "software repository" can be very useful when ReactOS will be
> "stable" and some (l)user want to use it.
> > That's true though. Software written in Python won't be included in
>
> ReactOS
> > anytime soon, but I guess the inclusion of that application into plain
> > ReactOS isn't even the target right now.
>
> Why not? Python is a powerful language (IMHO). There are some
> applications written in Py.
>
> Enrico
>
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