Re: gambas3.desktop install idea to detect installed toolkits...

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 06/11/2025 à 17:00, gbWilly a écrit :
> On Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 at 18:55, Benoît Minisini 
> benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:benoit.minisini@gambas- 
> basic.org> wrote:
>
>     When it is written in the 'gambas3-gb-gui' package dependencies that:
>
>     Depends: gambas3-gb-gtk | gambas3-gb-gtk3 gambas3-gb-qt5 | gambas3-
>     gb-qt6
>
>     It should mean that 'gambas3-gb-gui' depends on at least one of these
>     packages, and 'apt' should normally ask the user which one to install.
>
>
> I created a clean system and added OSB master as source repo.
> I did following:
>
> apt-get install gambs3-ide
>
> Only gtk3 was installed since I use Mate desktop, so gambas3-gui 
> packages does exactly what it has to do, and as both you and I would 
> expect it to work.
>
> install-gambas3-ide.png
>
> Problem now is that when running the just installed IDE, the only 
> components available for use are those that the IDE depends on, no other.
>
> run-gambas3-ide.png
>
> In short, nobody does above, only install IDE. If I now would want to 
> use cairo or poppler, I would have to install them separately.

And so? Why should I be prevented from running the IDE without the 
components it does not depends on? And if I want to develop a QT-only 
program on KDE without having to install all the GTK+/cairo/pango stuff 
on my system?

> To do a proper install of Gambas IDE you do:
>
> apt-get install gambas3

This is not a "proper" installation of the Gambas IDE. This is a full 
installation of all Gambas components AND the Gambas IDE.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.