Re: Building gambas on OBS

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 14/11/2024 à 10:18, Tim Dickson a écrit :
> as long as the source tar.gz or similar is available and the usual 
> configure & make works, that should be fine for slackware and near 
> derivatives.
> my slackbuild will take either webkit2gtk4.0 or webkit2gtk4.1 although 
> lists the latter as a dependency.
> because deps aren't package system managed, end users can get away with 
> that.
> As with a number of distro's, the move from soup2 to soup3 is not 
> complete because not all gnome programs have moved over, leaving people to
> choice either older more complete packages or newer ones with some 
> programs no longer available.
>
> will the source remain in the usual place, or is it moving? and will it 
> be able to use system libs as before or is that planned to change?
> regards, Tim

Nothing changes in sources, in GitLab and in the way Gambas is compiled.

It is "just" a matter of replacing Launchpad by OpenSUSE build server.

Consequences are not entirely clear at the moment: for sure, you will 
have more packages, but less Ubuntu versions, less or more ARM 
packaging, maybe less Gambas versions packages.

Stay tuned...

--
Benoît Minisini.