[Gambas-user] New Gambas User - Stupid Question

[Benoit Minisini]

On Monday 04 December 2006 21:51, Bob Hodges wrote:
> I am brand new to Gambas and I'm very excited in trying it out.  I'm a
> Windows/Visual Basic guy, and was excited to come across Gambas when I was
> looking for something like VB in Linux.  I'm also somewhat new to Linux in
> terms of mechanics, though I've been using it on and off for years as a
> simple workstation when I want to take a break from Windows.
>
> I'm used to using Visual Basic and InstallShield to distribute my apps.
>
> Now for my stupid Gambas question:
>
> How on earth do you distribute a Gambas app?  What needs to be included? 
> How do you package it into an installer?  Is it a horrible mess?  Is there
> such a thing as a stand-alone distributable app in Linux, and is Gambas
> capable of it?
>
> Much thanks in advance!
>
> Bob
>

Everything relies on the notion of binary "packages", that depends on other 
binary packages, and so on.

The IDE has a menu entry that will make a binary package of your project, and 
this binary packages will depend on all needed Gambas binary packages (there 
are about one package for the core interpreter, and one package for each 
component).

Installing the package of your project will install automatically all other 
needed binary packages.

This menu entry is not done yet in the development version, but you have it in 
the stable version.

The big problem is that different distributions have different packaging 
systems. 

For example, the menu entry will allow you to make a package for Mandriva that 
won't work on a Debian or a Fedora.

But things will slightly merge in the future, thanks to the normalization and 
the Portland project.

I hope it was clear.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini