add easier install option

[zabbal]

It would ease adoption and greatly increase user base if there would be a way to easily install fifth via distro repos (for example ppa, copr etc). The first step would be to include easier way to build packages right from the git checkout - debian/ directory etc. After all, the way to ensure world domination is by getting into distro repositories :)

[clbr]

On Mon, 04 May 2015 07:26:43 -0700
zabbal notifications@github.com wrote:

It would ease adoption and greatly increase user base if there would be a way to easily install fifth via distro repos (for example ppa, copr etc). The first step would be to include easier way to build packages right from the git checkout - debian/ directory etc. After all, the way to ensure world domination is by getting into distro repositories :)

Quite agreed, but the only distro I'm involved with (TinyCore) already
has Fifth packaged. I don't use Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. It is up
to packagers of those distros, or in the case of Ubuntu ppas volunteers.

I think I've already gone further than many upstreams by offering
portable Linux binaries. Trying to package for N distros myself would
be a sisyphean task.

You could help - if you can do a ppa/etc package, please do; if you
can't, please request someone else package it for your distro. A few
distros already have packages/scripts (AUR, some smaller ones).

[cb88]

This was the main reason I requested being able to build liburlmatch statically.... haven't had time to grok the makefiles to get that working though.

Its also a problem for netsurf as well... whenever they enable a new library it tends to not be one that is already packaged... so the packages lag thier releases a few months when that happens while people get around to adding the packages
.
You are better off to use the firefox option and bundle the libraries... by default but allow overriding with system versions.

[clbr]

liburlmatch is very simple to build though, pure C with no dependencies?