[Gambas-user] CDE. An interesting packaging tool

[Benoît Minisini]

> Although I'm not a gambas developer, I appreciate the idea. I would prefer
> to have all the must-haves packaged into single file, instead of fighting
> with unresolved package dependencies. It's better to have a myprogram.bin
> installer, than myprogram.rpm, myprogram.deb... Maybe Benoit would argue
> because of the package size. It's more like Windows. But who cares. If I'd
> be sure my program will run independently of the Linux platform flavor, I'd
> yes to size increment.
> 
> Csaba

This is exactly what Cristian Abarzua F. (craf) tried to achieve. But it did 
it by hand, I tried to help him, but we encountered problems.

Apparently 'cde' seems to work, so I should try it and integrate it inside the 
IDE packager.

So, no I'm not fully against that kind of package now. Except that users 
should be aware of the following:

- They will be bigger (imagine a full Gambas GUI program relying of a lot of 
components).

- System security fix and updates won't apply to them. So packagers must 
regularly repackage them. (Same nightmare as in windows).

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini