[Gambas-devel] Component Miscellaneous

[daniel]

Just the only pending thing about this interesting conversation:

- What would be a base distribution for Gambas?

 Of course anyboby could distribute Gambas compiler-interpreter, then
gambas-sdl, then gambas-mysql, etc, but I think it's better to have a
big...well, not big, just medium package with all common stuff
(databases, network, may be multimedia ), so the user has not to care
about multiple packages and dependencies, just download a binary for
your distribution and you'll have a powerful environment available
to create/execute programs.

 One of the problems I find each time I try to install a Gnome program,
is that may be it depends on gnome-xxx which also depends on 
gnome-yyyy which also can not be installed unless you install
gnome-zzzz, and so on, and finally some people abandon their efforts
when they've downloaded 10 or more pieces of code (using a 56k modem)...

 To have separate packages is a good idea for beta components, or
components that uses very specific stuff, but for general-pourpose
components (for example, my networking component just calls glibc),
I don't see any reason to distribute it as a separate complement.

Regards,

Daniel Campos



El dom, 28-09-2003 a las 17:29, Rob escribió:
> On Sunday 28 September 2003 05:47, daniel wrote:
> > First : an stable version, then, packages, we're are not (yet)
> > a thousand programmers at full-time, paid by Bill (Gates). I
> 
> Oh, there are gambas packages available now, at least my packages 
> for Mandrake for the last 6 months ;)  I just wanted to make 
> sure I could distribute a "gambas" package and then 
> "gambas-mysql", "gambas-postgres", "gambas-SDL" etc.... the way 
> it works in other languages like perl.  I probably won't get to 
> breaking components into separate packages for 0.70 though.
> 
> > Of course, compile it in a computer with Gambas source (it is
> > like having Visual Basic installed in a computer, but more
> > cheap :), and you'll have a library and two additional files :
> > "*.component" and ".info", that, if you want to compare it
> > with VB, are like register files that you have to place in
> > your filesystem, instead of windows registry, and any binary
> > installer can do that.
> 
> Thanks, that was all I needed to know.  Sounds like I might be 
> able to do it all with one spec file.  (The idea of a Gambas 
> installer tool is nice for operating systems with no packaging 
> system, like, say, Slackware prior to 9.1, but it's not cool to 
> install stuff outside the packaging system on machines where 
> there is one...)
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
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