[Gambas-user] Gambas-dev? (vs gambas-devel)

[Tim Dickson]

At least with Slackware, gambas is not split into lots of little 
packages. There is one package only; gambas3 :-)
no dev/devel complications. No worries there for component package 
names, as there are none.

On 23/04/2021 13:44, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> On 4/22/21 7:19 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> "gambas-devtools" or whatever, suits me. It looks like something 
>> special 
>> and I would be reading the comments in the RPM file to find out more.
>
> That's a naming format I didn't think of previously. So I did another 
> search on openSUSE.
>
> `zypper se devtools`
> S | Name             | Summary | Type
> --+------------------+---------------------------------------------+-------- 
>
>   | linuxrc-devtools | Tools to submit from Git to OBS via Jenkins | 
> package
>   | rpmdevtools      | RPM Development Tools | package
>   | yast2-devtools   | YaST2 - Development Tools | package
>
> So, yep, developers use that convention as well. And, the Summary 
> clarifies it.
>
> Personally, it doesn't much matter to me. Since the SPEC file 
> indicates gambas3-devel is required, I know it's ... required. But, 
> "*dev*tools" is more descriptive.
>
>


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