[Gambas-user] compiling on Debian

[Tobias Boege]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2013, Adrien Prokopowicz wrote:
> Le Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:55:37 +0200, Willy Raets  
> <willy at ...2734...> a ??crit:
> 
> > On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 18:32 +1000, Ian Haywood wrote:
> >> BUT
> >> the file /usr/lib/gambas3/gb.qt4.gambas does not exist and the
> >> existing Debian packaging scripts expect it (i.e. it used to exist
> >> back when Gambas was last successfully packaged: 3.1.1)
> >> gb.qt4.so and gb.qt4.component are generated.
> >
> > Since gb.qt4 is not written in Gambas there should not be a
> > gb.qt4.gambas. Only the components written in Gambas have one.
> >
> > How did the gb.qt4.gambas end up in the Debian repo of 3.1.1?
> 
> I remember that a small part of gb.qt4 and gb.gtk were written in gambas  
> (the Action class I think), making it an hybrid component, so that's why a  
> gb.qt4.gambas were generated.
> But since the 3.4 version, this class has been moved to the gb.gui.base  
> component, and now gb.qt4 and gb.gtk are now completely made in C/C++, so  
> that's may be why that file is not generated anymore.

You are right, Adrien. 3.1.1 indeed had a gb.qt4 Gambas part. I'm sorry,
didn't realise.

Regards,
Tobi