[Gambas-user] The problem with gb.gui, gb.gui.opengl, and gb.desktop.gnome (2)

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 01/11/2013 02:48, Bruce a écrit :
> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 11:41 +1030, Bruce wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 01:44 +0100, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In revision #5924, the IDE generates meta-packages for QT4 and GTK+
>>> support when a project uses the gb.gui component. There is no dependency
>>> on the non-existing gb.gui package anymore. Same thing for gb.gui.opengl.
>>>
>>> So, if the 'foo' project uses gb.gui, the packager will generate the
>>> three following packages:
>>> - 'foo', the full project will all its dependencies.
>>> - 'foo-qt4', a void package that depends on 'foo' and 'gb.qt4'.
>>> - 'foo-gtk', a void package that depends on 'foo' and 'gb.gtk'.
>>>
>>> If 'foo' uses gb.gui.opengl, the corresponding opengl dependencies will
>>> be added to the 'foo-qt4' and 'foo-gtk' packages.
>>>
>>> At the moment, only Debian/Ubuntu has been implemented.
>>>
>>> Can you test it and tell me if it works for you?
>>>
>>> I will add the conditional dependency foo-gtk | foo-qt4, but I want to
>>> check if it possible with RPM, Arch, and Slackware packages first.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> P.S. I admire you and others making binary packages. Playing with debian
>>> packaging is like programming the Win32 API with the brainfuck language
>>> for me. It took me more than four hours to make these two metapackages
>>> without getting a cryptic error.
>>>
>>
>> (Purely theoretical given this is all a bit too hard for me)
>>
>> a) where is gb.image going to live?
>> b) if 'foo' uses one of the UI's directly then I presume you would only
>> get (say) foo-gtk. Does that render the entire package unusable on a KDE
>> environment?
>> c) BTW I'll check again, but I seem to recall that the keyring is still
>> there in gtk 3....
>>
>
> Another thing just popped into my head.
>
> If 'foo' uses gb.qt4.webkit then even if it is explicitly using gb.gui
> then the gb.gtk component is redundant as the app will always start with
> gb.qt4 active.
>
> I attached a pic to show what I mean.
>
> So how far does/will the packager go to resolve that only gb.qt4 is
> required?

If 'foo' uses gb.qt4.webkit, it cannot use gb.gui.

>
> (btw: I wish there was a gb.gtk.webkit!)
>

Something to be done, but a big job, because the GTK+ webkit relies on 
other libraries to handle the network, whereas everything is under the 
hand with Qt4.

-- 
Benoît Minisini