Re: Online GNUstep Application Database

[Damian Steer]

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David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de> writes:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I could provide an GSWeb based Online Database of Applications for GNUstep.
>
> Like 
>
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/aquataxx.html
>

As a followup to this it would be nice if the archive had downloadable
binaries...

Which leads me to the point of this post. To what degree is this
possible in GNUstep? I notice that I have 'GNUSTEP_FLATTENED="yes"',
but seem to recall something like fat binary support in the past (I
guess flattening is the default now?). Being able to unpack and use a
single .app, even if it is on the 'chubby' side, would be very
nice. (/me looks grumpily at individual linux apps evenly distributed
over the entire filesystem).

However a quick ldd on Calculator suggests it would be impractical. It
seems to be linked to libungif, libpng12, etc beyond just the gnustep
libs, which I assume is a limitation of the linux linker. OS X seems
to have a funky linker which can refer to frameworks, hence isolating
such dependencies.

Any suggestions as to whether this could be possible?

Damian
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