[Gambas-user] Re: About Gambas packages in contrib

[Benoit Minisini]

Hi, Lenny.

I noticed that in Mandrake 10.1 you made gambas packages, but that these 
packages will prevent the gambas installer to work.

I already wrote you about this problem two months ago, but didn't get any 
anwser. I join the mail I sent you, that describes the problem.

If you don't want to follow the needed gambas package organization because 
they don't follow the Mandrake rules, please remove them. Otherwise, Mandrake 
users will have problems when installing gambas applications.

Best regards,

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Benoit Minisini
mailto:gambas at ...1...

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>
> Hi, Lenny.
>
> I'm happy to see that you made Gambas packages for Mandrake.
>
> Alas the packages you made will prevent Gambas to work as it should.
>
> You used the old bad .spec file made by Rod Kudla. Now you should use
> the .spec file included in the source package.
>
> I give more details :-)
>
> The package organization of Gambas is the following:
>
> - gambas-runtime.rpm: includes the runtime necessary to run gambas
> projects. - gambas-ide.rpm: includes the IDE and ALL other packages.
> - gambas-gb*.rpm: one package for each component.
>
> The IDE packager wizard relies on this structure to make a rpm packages
> from a Gambas project. Without this structure, nothing will work.
>
> I know that this is not exactly the common Mandrake structure for packages,
> but tell me if it is a problem as:
>
> - Shared libraries included in Gambas are just used by the interpreter.
> They won't be used by any other programs.
>
> - If you put all components in one library, this means that installing a
> simple textual "Hello-world" Gambas program will install all the components
> - not dramatic - and ALL the shared libraries they depends on (X11, QT,
> SDL, ...)- more problematic!
>
> - All distributions (even the Debian!) will have this structure, so that a
> person who makes a Gambas program on a SuSE will be able to install it on a
> Mandrake.
>
> I hope I was convincing.
>
> I think it will be a bad thing if people find Gambas packages on Mandrake
> and they don't work!
>
> Regards,
>
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