[Gambas-user] Autotools packaging ???

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 19/03/2015 00:38, adamnt42 at ...626... a écrit :
> Something has happened that I don't quite understand.
>
> For several years we have used autotools packaging to distribute our stuff to clients.
> The IDE options for packaging have always been:
> Vendor Name="Paddys-Hill"
> Prefix package name with the vendor name=Yes
>
> This has always worked up till the last time we sent some stuff out via autotools (around Oct last year?), we would have a package called (say) "paddys-hill-parseform-0.1.2.tar.gz".
>
> Now, when I first package up a project, the wizard "Prefix package with the vendor name" checkbox is writeable but we have had our name prefix changed to "paddys_hill" instead of "paddys-hill"???
>
> And subsequent packaging doesn't let me alter the checkbox and adds "gambas3-" to the front of the package name. So I end up with "gambas3-paddys_hill-parseform-0.1.2.tar.gz".
>
> This is really playing havoc with the downloader/installer we have provided our customers with and is causing me no end of headache.  What is going on?
>
> regards
> bruce
>

Sorry but the "-" character inside vendor name makes packaging fail in 
some cases and some distributions, so it is automatically replaced by "_".

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini