[Gambas-user] gambas3 ubuntu packages

[Benoît Minisini]

> I have produced some draft ubuntu packages for gambas3, based on svn
> revision 3246
> they are produced largely by taking the gambas2 debian packaging files
> and replacing a lot of "2"s with "3"s
> 
> some other changes:
> 
> gambas2-gb-kde-html becomes gambas3-gb-qt-webkit
> gambas3-gb-gtk-svg and gambas3-gb-corba don't exist: they don't seem to
> produce libraries in the upstream svn.
> gambas3-gb-db-firebird isn't packaged for licence issues as for the
> gambas2 packages
> gambas3-gb-dbus is added for the new DBus bindings.

I'm going to update the "How To Package Gambas" page on the wiki.

And gb.db.firebird will be removed from Gambas for the same reasons.

> 
> they are complied against ubuntu 9.10 ("karmic koala"), I'm interested
> to hear about how
> they go on later ubuntu versions or other debian-based distros.
> 
> to load add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
> 
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ihaywood3/gambas3/ubuntu karmic main
> deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ihaywood3/gambas3/ubuntu karmic main
> 
> 
> then do "sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install gambas3"
> 
> The version numbers don't mean anything, currently "0.2-1", I will update
> the packages with svn at irregular intervals or when requested.
> the major version will stay at 0 so that when official packages come out
> they replace my packages.

I suggest you use the revision number (0.3840) or the date (0.20101003) as 
version number.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini