[Gambas-user] Gambas Future or what kind of Gambas we want.

[Carl Nilsson]

Let's try this!
Jussi said:  "But instead of guessing what were the troubles, please 
tell us, it's only way
to improve things."
That's a fair question.
Some time ago I had actually bought a set of DVD's with openSUSE12.2, 
after unsuccessfully trying to intall Lubuntu and Ubuntu on an older 
computer.  (I'll try again some time).  However, openSUSE 12.2 
installed no problems.  Then I looked for a repository for gambas3 
and once again, munix9:gambas/openSUSE_12.2 came to the 
fore.  However, gambas3 would not install its examples because of 
missing dependencies like imlib2, libogg and v4l-tools: I seached the 
net, obtaining many pieces of advice on installing these. (Yes, the 
process is now consuming heaps of time and energy). I started to 
become familiar with "zypper". I tried 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/enlightenment/.  I'll say I neded 
enlightenment!  By the time I got to "sed -i 
"DGifOpen/s:fd:&,NULL:"src/modules/loaders/loader_gif.c  &.configure 
--prefix=/usr --disable-static && make" and similar instructions the 
cat (the one with four legs, not the Linux command) had the good 
sense to leave the house!  This went on for some days - days, not 
hours!  Looking now at my notes (and ignoring the expletives) I found 
that imlib2 needed libmlib2.so.1 etc etc.  Finally, I hit the 
"search" facility at 
software.opensuse.org/search?.g=lib&baseproject=openSUSE% and 
installed the missing components.  Yes, it's a learning experience in 
Linux as it actually is, but no, it's not what I need when I really 
want to get on with using Gambas.
If you try to install Gambas 3.5 on the Raspberry Pi running it's 
version of Debian Wheezy, the CPU goes into overdrive and stays 
there.  That's what happens in the real world of newbies to Linux and 
Gambas.  No wonder Tobias "never hears from them again"!
Carl