[Gambas-user] Gambas3 svn: requrements

[Matti]

ok, was just an idea.
I don't know anything about those low-level things.

Benoît Minisini schrieb:

>>
>> Wouldn't it be a good idea to make a script that checks the current
>> requirements, to run *before* all these installation commands, saying "hey,
>>  you shouldn't start the installation, because this and that are missing"?
>>  Instead of spending hours with deleting, installing, and afterwards
>>  searching in the logs for warnings and disabled components.
>> Scripts can do that better and faster than human beings.
> 
> Maybe. This is what configure does. But in a standard low-level way, which 
> takes a lot of time, and error messages are mixed with normal ones.
> 
> It is difficult to check system packages, because they depend on the 
> distribution. I have only the time to do that on my own Mandriva.
>