[Gambas-user] Gambas 3 on Website Server

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 05.12.2012 17:26, schrieb Tobias Boege:
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2012, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
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>> Am 05.12.2012 16:34, schrieb Jussi Lahtinen:
>>>> If I want to build scripts with Gambas 3 on my website's server, how
>>>> would you install Gambas 3 there: Downloading and compiling the source,
>>>> or apt-get via Kendek's PPA?
>>>>
>>>
>
> ...
>
>> Just found it's 8.04, do you know if Gambas 3 will compile there anyway?
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>
> I remade our school's computer cabinet which ran 8.04, too, during summer
> holidays because the software repositories are finally down for that LTS
> (server) version - IIRC, the ubuntu users must help me out here.
>
> Almost everything was too old there to install gambas3 from source (packages
> didn't exist, of course) and couldn't be upgraded. If it is _at all_
> possible to build all the dependencies for gambas3, you'd have to do it from
> the packages' sources and I'm sure it will be a pain.
>
> This is the conclusion I came to make. Maybe there are other ways but I
> couldn't see them.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>

Yes, but on our website? I think this would be too dangerous to me, 
maybe not even possible, as it's a virtual server. I guess I would have 
to order another/new server and pull everything over there. Too much 
hazzle. I don't see the point. For my little cgi-script Gambas2 will 
suffice.

Regards

Rolf