[Gambas-user] Packager appears broken in Gambas 2.0.0 under Ubuntu Hardy

[Benoit Minisini]

On jeudi 8 mai 2008, Bob Warren wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) installed via Windows. I have
> downloaded and installed Gambas 2.0.0 available in the Ubuntu
> repositaries by the standard method in the "Add/Remove Programs" menu.
>
> I am an ordinary fellow, not a computer geek. I do not have the time,
> energy, or (frankly) the competence to play with computers much, except
> perhaps to use ready-made tools for the production and distribution of
> my own simple programs. Faced with the prospect of compiling binaries,
> sorting out dependencies, and all the other stuff that the geeks do, I
> just have to turn myself off. Sorry, but that's who I am, one of many
> "ordinary" users who hopefully will adopt Gambas in the future.
>
> For the reasons explained above, I would like to point out the
> importance of making sure that the Gambas available by the "standard"
> method is always a stable version. There is no need for it to be the
> latest and greatest, but it shouldn't crash of course. And if serious
> problems are found at a later time, then I suggest it would be a good
> idea to replace the version in the standard repository ASAP.
>
> That said, I would like to congratulate Benoit on the apparent quality
> and appearance of Gambas 2 that I have seen in the form of 2.0.0 via
> Ubuntu Hardy. That one man could have produced such a thing is truly
> remarkable. Very impressive!
>
> So far, I have attempted a few very simple test projects with Gambas 2.
> When "running" these projects from the IDE, I was foxed for a while
> because no Window appeared. However, I soon discovered that the window
> of my project was hidden behind the IDE and that an icon was showing at
> the bottom of the screen. No real problem then, but is it like this on
> purpose?
>
> Then I tried making executables. No problem there. So I became ambitious
> and tried making a package for Ubuntu. More often than not, it crashed.
> Sorry if something similar has been reported and I haven't noticed, or
> if it has already been fixed in a version later than my "standard" one
> from Ubuntu Hardy. Here is the report:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Creating package for Ubuntu.
> Making build directory.
> Creating desktop file...
> Sources are being debianizated.
> Creating package...
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package shit3
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0-0
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by warren <warren at ...1902...>
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
>  debian/rules clean
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> rm -Rf `find . -name ".gambas"`
> rm -Rf `find . -name "*.gambas"`
> rm -f build-stamp install-stamp
> dh_clean
> dh_clean: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated.
>  dpkg-source -b shit3
> dpkg-source: error: source package name `Shit3' contains illegal
> character `S'
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: dpkg-source -b shit3 gave error exit status 255
> The package build has failed.
> Package.MakeDebPackage.424: 'dpkg-buildpackage' has failed.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> I don't know whether it helps, but the "Name" of my project was "Shit3"
> (sorry about that), and the "Title" of my project was "bobShit3". I
> don't understand the report above, but there seems to be some confusion
> between small "s's" and capital ones?
>
> Regards to all,
>
> Bob Warren
>
>

This bug has been fixed in Gambas 2.1. You should use the Ubuntu packages 
specified in the download section of the web site.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini