[Gambas-user] Gambas 1.9.24 package for Ubuntu 5.10

Benoit Minisini gambas at ...1...
Mon Feb 6 21:43:31 CET 2006


On Monday 06 February 2006 19:19, Rob Kudla wrote:
> On Mon February 6 2006 08:40, Daniel Campos wrote:
> > Having just a big package prevents people  from download
> > what they need
> > without bloat.  For people who  need the complete environment,
> > is just matter of creating a virtual package, for example
> > called 'gambas' which installs all the rest of packages. That
> > way people can choose the two ways.
>
> In the days following 1.0 (before Mandrake included Gambas
> packages in contrib) lots of people who didn't know how to add
> package sources or use the command line would ask me for a
> single gigantic RPM of Gambas so they didn't have to click on 18
> different files to download them.  So I made a package called
> "gambas-complete" that included the files from all the other
> packages.
>
> I stopped building that package last spring, and haven't gotten
> any complaints, so I guess it's just a matter of getting all
> those little packages into each distribution's official
> repositories.
>
> I agree that all the little packages are they way to go - that's
> the only way I was able to get Gambas installed on gambasdoc.org
> which has no KDE, Postgres or SDL ;)
>
> Rob
>
>

Anyway, the 'gambas-ide' package is there for installing everything.

-- 
Benoit Minisini





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