[Gambas-user] Requests for Gambas3

[Olivier Cruilles]

Hello,

I'm exactly in the same situation about my project 'gbrrdgraphix' and I confirm
that is very difficult to create and maintain package of a Gambas project for the most known
linux distributions.

You need to consider that if you create only 2 packages for each distribution, to install
these, you need to satisfy all dependencies of packages so It's not only 40 MB that you need to install
but all packages whose all components depends and it's not the same problem.

After many time thinking about that, better should be to have people who want to create
package respecting all  procedures that Benoit indicate on his web site.

What do you think about that Benoit or did you have any other solution ?


Olivier Cruilles
Mail: linuxos at ...1896...


Le 7 nov. 2010 à 21:10, M. Cs. a écrit :

> 
> Dear Benoit and all,
> I'm writing this request as serious cry for your reconsideration and help.
> I was using Gambas2 on various distributions, and I'm trying to maintain the
> GamCat project, which is written in Gambas2, but it is harder and harder to
> do. First I've heard that openSuse is not following your concept of
> packaging the components, so they don't have gambas2-gb-sdl-sound component
> at all. Some times ago the component gambas2-gb-qt-kde has disappeared from
> Mandriva too. PCLinuxOS have only one package for gambas2 so it IS
> impossible to use projects written in G2 on various Linux distributions. In
> fact, only *buntu has full G2 support today, and this is a big regression.
> What I suggest is:
> - Have only two packages for the entire G3: one for the IDE component (for
> those not using G3 for development) and the rest of the components shipped
> in a single package.
> 
> I have good reasons for that: gambas is not bigger than around 40MB. This is
> not a big size. I'd like to see gambas as a widely usable framework, not
> what is today. It would be so nice just to fire up the gambas3 package and
> have working applications written in it. Today I can't say gambas2 is very
> useful, because I can't force a user of e.g. GamCat to compile gambas2 from
> sources in order to have all the possible opions at hand. It is a real pain
> to package projects for different kind of Linuxes. It would be a pity for
> this great work to become a narrowing chunk. We cannot force packagers to
> obey the packaging rules of the many components, and the situation is really
> insane. Please consider it, for the project's sake.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Csaba
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