[Gambas-user] Passing programs

[Benoit Minisini]

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 17:53, Adrian Debbeler wrote:
> Hi,
> one aspect which bars me from deciding for Gambas is that it seems to be
> really difficult to pass my programs to others. Is there any alternative
> to pass gambas programs more easily (so the receiver has not to install
> the whole gambas program?). Of course it would be the best if the
> interpreter would be compiled with my own program which has the
> advantage that the user does not have to bother about the interpreter etc.
>
> grosem
>

There is no reason for a Gambas program to be easier to install than any other 
program under Linux.

The installation process must be centralized in a package manager, for 
security and administration reasons. 

Programs too "easy" to install are a bad idea... In ten years, I don't want to 
have to run an anti-virus on my Linux box that takes 50% of my CPU power like 
on another OS. :-)

When Gambas is correctly packaged on your distribution, installing a program 
made with the stable version is finally very easy too. 

The less bad solution IMHO is the klik one, i.e. make an archive of all 
libraries needed by the gambas program. But this archive won't necessarily 
run on a system different from the one it was made... 

So that is far from being my priority today :-)

-- 
Benoit Minisini