Re: Proposal for possible consolidation of the packages

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 24/11/2024 à 18:19, munix9 a écrit :
> Am 24.11.24 um 17:26 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> > Le 24/11/2024 à 10:19, munix9 a écrit :
> >
> > Mmm... I don't see how it will simplify things. I think it's even the 
> > contrary.
>
> Oh, ok.
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't understand: what does the ide have to do with it?
>
> An example: given is a package description that contains the following
> package: myPack
> package: myPack-aaa
> package: myPack-bbb
>
> An alternative package description, on the other hand, contains
> package:  myPack
> provides: myPack-aaa
> provides: myPack-bbb
>
> The first version results in 3 “real” package files, while the second 
> version results in only one package, which however technically 
> (virtually) indicates that it also contains the packages “myPack-aaa” 
> and “myPack-bbb”.
>
> The respective system management software can resolve this and a search 
> for “myPack-aaa” results in “myPack” in the second version.
>
> And so it is no problem if any other package, let's call it “something- 
> completely-different” contains the line
>
> requires: myPack-aaa (or depends, or ...)
>
> The respective system management software does not care whether the 
> package “myPack-aaa” really exists or is available as part of “myPack”.

Ah ok, I didn't understand you were talking about that feature. If one 
binary package can implement all the dependencies required by the IDE 
(i.e. one dependency by component), then I have no problem with your 
proposal.

...except for 'gb.compress'. Each specific compress driver component 
depends on a specific library, so they must be implemented in different 
components. I don't want to force the user to install all libraries for 
all possible compression supported by 'gb.compress'.

Otherwise I'm not sure that it can be automated by 'gambas-package-config'.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.