[Gambas-user] check 4 Gambas Runtime files?

Rolf-Werner Eilert rwe-sse at osnanet.de
Fri Dec 15 13:28:52 CET 2017


Am 15.12.2017 09:34, schrieb Tobias Boege:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
>> Would it be possible to keep "runtime" and "IDE" parts of Gambas strictly
>> apart? For users just installing a Gambas application, the installation
>> script would only have to look for the latest runtime part. Just like with
>> Python, Java etc.
>>
>
> But this is what we do, no? There's a package gambas3-runtime and a separate
> package gambas3-ide. If your distribution doesn't have these two, it is
> packaging Gambas incorrectly [1]. They might provide a package group called
> "gambas3" on top, which contains everything, for convenience.

No idea. I know how to install everything from Yast (I am on Suse), and 
maybe I don't care for package names. So I wasn't aware it is already 
done like this.

>
> If you make an installation package of your program, the runtime will be a
> dependency, but the IDE very likely not. AFAICS, Python and Java don't have
> an official IDE for the language. You're free to ignore the IDE to have
> the same effect.

Ok, thank you for the hint!

Regards
Rolf



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