[Gambas-user] Maybe a weird question

[Heinz Sporn]

Hi!

Sorry Maurizio, but I believe you immersed a little too much into
Windoze-like software deployment. There's a reason why no Python, Perl
or let's say PHP application is distributed in a bundle with the
regarding interpreter. There's simply too much flavours of Linux out
there.

And here comes the beauty with all the reusable libraries, application
frameworks and interpreters: your application does not have to bother
wether or not this or that library is installed at all or carries a
specific version number. The only thing you have to say is: I don't care
what type of Linux you're using or what libraries are installed - just
get Gambas running on your fancy machine and you're fine.

Anyway pre-compiled packages would set too much limits. An example: I'm
a happy Gentoo user. Why should I bother with rpms and debs? I would
need the Gambas sources anyway to compile them against may running
environment. A pre-compiled package would propably not even execute on
my machines and if it would run like a lame duck ;-)

Regards

spox


Am Dienstag, den 28.06.2005, 09:36 +0100 schrieb Maurizio Pozzobon:
> 2005/6/28, Daniel Campos <danielcampos at ...282...>:
>         The fake problem of the interpreter availability
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------
>         
>         Often, some people says: Hey, Gambas programs should be
>         compiled, if not,
>         we need the interpreter installed in the machine! We can not
>         distribute it! 
>         
>         Let me tell you just one thing:
>         
>         1) can you run any KDE program without all its dependencies
>         installed?
>         2) Can you do it with a Gnome program?
>         3) May be just a QT or GTK program?
>         6) Any graphical program without all X libraries? 
>         4) Can you use Mplayer without a lot of libraries for codecs?
>         5) Can you install a Apache to serve CGI applications without
>         Perl or
>         Python (or Gambas)?
>         6) Can you run any perl, python or bash program without their
>         interpreters? 
>         
>         Where's then the problem? 
> 
> The problem is that to all yours questions the answer is "No". As you
> can see in my previous mail I'd like to be able to create an
> All-in-One package (rpm or deb) easy to install so that the user could
> be able to choose between the normal pack for those who alredy have
> the dep installed, or like to install them form source, and the big
> one for those who like the easy way.
> I think that no one would care if it is interpretable if it is easy to
> distribute and ofcourse to use
> 
> -- 
>            Maurizio
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