[Gambas-user] CDE. An interesting packaging tool

[Doriano Blengino]

Benoît Minisini ha scritto:
>> 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).
>   
I add a simple thought: shared libraries are a nice and fundamental 
concept in operating systems... if only they worked the way they should. 
Problems about shared libraries are *not* gambas problems - they are 
operating system ones. Trying to solve this issue in an improper manner 
can (and probably will) lead to add problems to problems. From a pure, 
theoretical point of view, this idea is really wrong, as it intereferes 
heavily with a beatiful concept. That said, anyone is free to interefere 
as much as wanted... eventually with success...

Regards,

-- 
Doriano Blengino

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