[Gambas-user] The new IDE packager - Help needed

[Benoit Minisini]

On mardi 10 avril 2007, José Luis Redrejo wrote:
>
> Do you have any documentation about the process, modules, or classes
> you use to make the rpm packages?. I will be glad to help coding the
> needed part to make native Debian packages.
>
> Regards.
> José L.
>

In the IDE source code:
- 'FMakeInstall' is the form that implements the packager wizard.
- 'Package' module is the class that creates the packages.

At the moment, the wizard interface is dedicated to *.rpm, but I don't think 
that it should change a lot for *.deb packages.

The main function is Package.MakePackage(), that receives as argument the name 
of the distribution. But this function is really made for *.rpm, so I think 
we should make one function for each package type:
- Package.MakeRpmPackage()
- Package.MakeDebPackage()

Then in Package.MakeDebPackage() you will put all you want to create a debian 
package.

The only thing to copy from the current Package.MakePackage() is the code to 
create the icons (three lines).

The external tools function detection (Package.CheckProgram) should be 
enhanced, so that it can tell FMakeInstall which distribution are supported:

rpmbuild => All RPM distributions.
dpkg => All DEB distributions.
Slackware seems to need only bzip2.

Tell me if you need more information, and if you want a SVN write access.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini