[Gambas-user] Examples in gambas 2.5.0 don't open

[Benoit Minisini]

On mardi 13 mai 2008, Mike Brett wrote:
> Thanks Martin, Jason. However, I've changed the permissions of the
> examples to "-rwxrwxrwx" (owner root, group root) which I would have
> thought would be enough for anybody, and I still can't get them to open.
> They won't open even when I'm root. I was advised by a friend to try
> 'tail' to trap any sysloggable messages from gambas but nothing showed up.
>
> The example folders contain the class files as plain text plus a binary
> gambas project file it shows as MIME type
> application/x-extension-gambas which I imagine is what it should.
>
> Any further thoughts, please?
>
> [Context is Gambas 2.5.0 on Fedora 8 (rpms from the LDRWEB site). None
> of the examples will open, despite the fact that the files are in the
> appropriate folders. I just get "This project does not exist" messages.
> (The installation placed the examples in /usr/share/gambas2/examples)
>
> Indeed if I 'Open Project' and navigate to the various examples folders,
> they won't open from there either. I can highlight a .gambas file and
> click OK and nothing happens.]
>
> Thank you    - Mike -
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Beginners problem : Gambas compiled package
> installation
> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:14:02 +0200
> From: Martin Senftleben <linux at ...1904...>
>
> Am Montag 12 Mai 2008 schrieb Jason Hackney:
> > I had a similar problem from within Ubuntu. I just ran gambas as
> > the superuser to get the examples working.
>
> Maybe you just need to change the access rights. By default, the files
> in this folder are only accessible to root. The access rights should
> be set at least to "r--r--r--" (readable to all), or chmod 555.
> If you want to edit the example projects, you probably need to move
> them into your home folder and give them read- and write-access
> (chmod 666).
> You can also leave them in the default location and use the "save as"
> option in Gambas in order to make a copy which you can work on.
>
> Martin
>

I looked at the "examples" packages at LDRWEB, and they are not correctly 
packaged. The guy who did that forgot to package the hidden files that are 
alwyas included in a gambas project directory (.project for example, that 
identify a gambas project).

I have modified the "How to package Gambas" page on gambasdoc.org to explain 
that.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini