[Gambas-user] Re: Rpg Project (using SDL)

[Rob]

On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:13, Marcelo Duschkin wrote:
> But now, another question.
> What about the distribution of a Gambas application?
> We need to install all the Gambas pakage, now SDL, and??
> I think it will be important to prepare an "complete
> installer".

I will probably submit a patch that lets you build RPM's directly 
from the IDE.  For Gambas applications it ain't rocket science.  
For that project it would be a simple matter of including 
"Requires: perl-SDL" in the spec, and then urpmi (for mandrake), 
apt-rpm or yum (for fedora) would automatically make sure 
everything's installed.

I don't like the idea of making "complete installers" that bypass 
most distros' package management at all, because that's a good 
way to break your system.  Maybe if most of the Linux desktop 
world were running Slack or Gentoo that would be a good idea, 
but most of the world (especially that part who would not say 
"ewww, you wrote it in BASIC?") is running an RPM-based distro.

Rob