[Gambas-user] Nightly Builds

Ian Haywood ihaywood at ...1979...
Mon Feb 7 10:57:17 CET 2011


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:15 PM, John Spikowski <support at ...2529...> wrote:

> Is there a way to 'package' a Gambas 3 runtime to share with others on
> the All Basic forum? I would need a script to build a tar.z file. I
> would want to include everything that is needed to run Gambas 3 once the
> tar is extracted in the same directory structure it was built from.
>
> Gambas requires a fair amount of dependencies and making the user go
> hunting for them and maybe installing stuff they don't need could be a
> turn off before they even get started using the language.
we've had this discussion before. Including all the dependencies would
be very big, it would also be quite hard to set up as the gambas
executable would need to load the shared libraries from the same
directory as the .tar.gz instead of the standard linux location
(/usr/lib/)
All the modern linux distros include a system for automatically
resolving and loading complex dependencies, so the only real solution
is a packaging for the various distros.

 https://launchpad.net/~ihaywood3/+archive/gambas3
contains ubuntu packages which work on debian testing and probably
most other .deb based distros (Linux Mint, Mepis, etc)
I update about once a fortnight or so from svn, but if someone wants
to take over and extend to use some nightly autobuild system that
would be good.

Ian




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