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Re: GNUstep installation, was Compiling from scratch.
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Dennis Leeuw |
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Re: GNUstep installation, was Compiling from scratch. |
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Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:06:04 +0100 |
Well I'd like to add something... :)
I am in the process of writting a libary detect tool. The idea is that you ask
the tool if a certain library is available, what version is available and if
the header file(s) are installed.
The basic parts are available and it now works for audiofile and libobjc (which
I used as the test cases). The biggest effort will be to provide small tests
for all libraries needed, which will take some time. Some I can grab from the
Build Guide others have to be invented.
And to answer your later question if it would be a problem that the build
guides will be useless... no way :)
I would be more then happy to remove the Build Guide if building GNUstep was as
easy as let's say:
./configure
make
make install
Greetings,
Dennis Leeuw
Ian Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been thinking about this a lot over the past couple of days with the
> amount of discussions that have been going on it has brought to light some
> valid points and even small niggly things which are lacking (that I might be
> capable of doing something about) which will greatly spoil the user /
> developer experience even at such an early stage as trying to get GNUstep
> installed. Who knows how many potential gnustep / application developers and
> users we lose through people simply giving up at the installation stage or
> after struggling with installation, getting a poor version of GNUstep which
> gives a very bad impression by making the whole effort of getting it
> installed seem not worthwhile.
>
> Well, I sent one patch yesterday for -base configure.ac which hopefully now
> will try to use ffi if it can't find ffcall. I haven't looked at compile-all
> yet but I'm willing to do that if other people are busy elsewhere or see
> other things being more important.
>
> I would very much like to see gnustep easy to install and when installed
> working reasonably well, which may mean exiting the build from compile-all as
> Chris Vetter has previously stated if it can't find critical depandancies,
> such as ffcall or ffi not being installed, with clear and understandable
> explanation as to what has gone wrong. I would also like to make available a
> script that would run prior to compile-all which would basically do a CVS
> checkout of Alex Malmbergs latest_semi_stable tag; this would provide a
> gnustep installation which would be kept reasonably up to date and tested
> probably by myself and or whoever else would like to get involved to make
> sure it is kept to a reasonable quality. Hopefully this will provide
> developers and users who wish to give GNUstep a go a much better experience
> and impression of the project as a whole and through this we might gain a
> little extra man power.
>
> Some things that have been brought up by other and ideas of my own for
> compile-all:
> 1) Ability to choose between a user installation and developer installation,
> difference being development tools
> 2) Ability to choose which backend you want to use x11/art (obviously
> providing a default for people who don't know what's what)
> 3) exiting with good explanation after compilation of -base if critical
> depandancys aren't met that would make gnustep install but work with very
> limited functionality if at all.
>
> This is all open to suggestion, this is why I posted; I'd like to hear what
> others have to say on the subject and maybe any other ideas which would be
> good for inclusion or reasons why things I've stated would be a bad idea.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian Jones (Ian_J on #gnustep)
>
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