Re: Proposal for possible consolidation of the packages

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 24/11/2024 à 10:19, munix9 a écrit :
> To reduce the number of packages and thus simplify maintenance, I 
> recommend consolidating packages.
>
> It is understandable that with sub-packages you want to prevent e.g. 
> unneeded libraries from being installed as additional dependencies (e.g. 
> the consolidation of all db* packages would lead to postgres, sqlite, 
> etc. also being installed, although actually only mysql is needed).
>
> For other packages, however, this makes sense in my opinion:
> gb-compress*
> gb-db-mysql + gb-mysql
> gb-dbus*
> gb-desktop*
> gb-form* (?)
> gb-gtk*
> gb-gtk3*
> gb-image*
> gb-media*
> gb-net*
> gb-opengl*
> gb-qt4*
> gb-qt5*
> gb-qt6*
> gb-report*
> gb-sdl*
> gb-sdl2*
> gb-term*
> gb-util*
> gb-web* (?)
> gb-xml*
>
>
> Perhaps not all at once, but bit by bit where it makes sense.
> Don't forget that the packaging must also be adapted for the respective 
> distribution.
> This also means that newer Gambas versions that have been consolidated 
> must be mapped accordingly and require distribution-specific 
> information, e.g. for openSUSE:
>
> %package gb-compress
> Summary:        Gambas compression component
> BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(bzip2)
> BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libzstd)
> BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(zlib)
> Provides:       %{name}-gb-compress-bzlib2 = %{version}
> Obsoletes:      %{name}-gb-compress-bzlib2 < %{version}
> Provides:       %{name}-gb-compress-zlib = %{version}
> Obsoletes:      %{name}-gb-compress-zlib < %{version}
> Provides:       %{name}-gb-compress-zstd = %{version}
> Obsoletes:      %{name}-gb-compress-zstd < %{version}
>
>
> This is important so that package updates do not lead to collisions or 
> package corpses remain.
>
> Regards

Mmm... I don't see how it will simplify things. I think it's even the 
contrary.

Don't forget that the IDE has a wizard that creates packages for your 
projects. If there isn't a bijection between packages and components, it 
will become a nightmare to implement.

The only package that includes several components should be 
'gambas3-runtime', provided that these components have no dependency 
outside of the system C library.

As soon as the 'gambas-package-config' tool will be available, only new 
packages with dependencies on new libraries will imply some maintenance. 
Otherwise everything will be automatic.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.