[Gambas-user] URGENT request to people of Gambas stable PPA

[Lewis Balentine]

Have you considered setting up a local PPA.
In that way you might also control 'what else' gets updated.
http://inodes.org/2009/09/14/building-a-private-ppa-on-ubuntu/

Cheers,

Lewis

On 03/16/2015 09:15 AM, Willy Raets wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First, thank you for all the good and hard work getting Gambas out
> there.
>
> I have an urgent request for the Gambas-team people taking care of
> Gambas stable PPA.
>
> Would it be possible to have a PPA where Gambas 3.6.2 is available (a
> copy for example of the current).
>
> The reason I am asking is as follows.
>
> At work, I have been working on  a complete rewriting of current VB
> Client applications under Windows/MSAccess to Gambas 3.6.2 client
> applications under Linux/MySql. This project started december 2013.
>
> The rewrites have finished a few months ago and since I have been
> testing all. I am about to migrate the Windows environment to Linux.
>
> For this I need a working Gambas 3.6.2 PPA.
>
> Compiling Gambas 3.6 on the local systems will not work. Simply because
> the installation of the Gambas 3.6 migrated application .debs will not
> work because of missing dependencies.
>
> Why? Well, the distros package management system is not aware of the
> locally compiled Gambas 3.6.2. and will try to look for a PPA that holds
> them. Since all my applications are coded for auto-update-install new
> application versions, using the newer .debs, my auto-update-install
> mechanisms will not work either!
>
> Access to a Gambas 3.7 PPA is no solution as none of the applications
> where tested against Gambas 3.7 and I do not have a few months time to
> retest all. The migration is planned for next week!
>
> For this reason I need access to a working Gambas 3.6.2 repository, but
> with the release of Gambas 3.7, the 3.6.2 will soon be updated and no
> more 3.6.2 PPA will be available.
>
> Is it possible to host the 3.6.2 version at launchpad in a separate PPA,
> so that it will stay available.
>
> And wouldn't it be handy to have such a PPA for each last 3.x version.
> Especially, for those working in a professional environment, where
> stability is more important that the latest and greatest version of
> something.
>
> I hope some kind of solution will be possible or else the project will
> have a setback of a few months and my bosses will NOT be happy.
>
> It took me quite some time to convince them to make the move from
> VB/Windows to Gambas/Linux,so this latest Gambas update is really bad
> timing for me.
>