Re: Is it possible to have an offline Gambas Development Environment?

[Claus Dietrich <claus.dietrich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 05.05.25 um 13:35 schrieb gbWilly:
> I have no clue, for me off line help doesn't function. I just downloads foreve (I'm on 3.18.4). Online help in IDE is often in such small boxes that it is hard to read/use properly. But agin, I'm on 3.18.4 and run dark theme, that seems be part of the problem.

Thanks for your counter check. Today I found, that a new Help was 
offered. So I restarted the offline help.  It was updated and ... 
surprise ... its much better today. The boxes are displayed without 
strange text coverage and look different.  There are still some boxes 
contained nothing else than an error message saying that a resource 
(like a picture) wasn't found. However, on first sight it looks pretty 
usable now. It seems that some elves were working on it over night.

> wget the repo's to a local system and host it from there yourself. Eliminate all you don't need, but be aware of possible inter dependencies if you do. The setup when downloaded can be used as is, for hosting using a http server. You can resign the repo using your own generated key, if you want to. Note thathttp://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu will be a big one to pull in, so maybe you will need to be somewhat more selective in pulling the structure in. If you do that you will need to re-index the repo anyway. There are tools and some very basic documentation on how to set this up.
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> The whole structure can even be on the local system and set up as a file repository to pull form, so your sources.list entry would look something like 'debfile://path/to/repo main'. No http server needed in this case. The reference to above are internal to Gambas (I think), but could be hacked to point elsewhere I suppose somewhere in source code.

I pulled the ppa with all Ubuntu versions with

wget -r https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/gambas-team/gambas3/ubuntu/

This is about 500MB which is OK. I couldn't find a configuration file in 
Gambas where I can modify the addresses of web-resources. So I may have 
to modify the hard-wiring in the IDE - puh.

I will now try to understand the huge Ubuntu repository and pull those 
parts I need.

Best regards

Claus