Re: distribution and packaging (Was: Re: Themes (again))

[Liam Proven]

On 28 September 2013 13:27, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
>
> do you mean source tarballs? those we have.. .and building is up to you.
> Except perhaps the core system which requires tweaking, all the rest is a
> matter of configure && make install or even just make install.

To be honest, I have not built anything much from source in about
10-15 years now. That reminds me of the bad old days of the mid-1990s
when I started experimenting with Linux.

95% of stuff I ever want is in the Ubuntu repositories. Very very
occasionally I download a .deb and install it (e.g. Google Chrome,
Skype, VirtualBox). If there is a repository for the program
available, I add it and then it's upgraded every few days with the
rest of my OS.

I can't remember the last time I built anything from source. Not for
4-5 years, I think, and then it was an extreme rarity. I do not even
have Gcc on my systems.

> This is very strange. I use GWorkspace daily. Which version are you using? I
> hope not the debian packages: they are so old that it is a shame (3 releases
> behind), the bug fixed since that release is enormous.

Yes, that is what I have been using - the GNUstep tools included in
Ubuntu/Debian. I had been experimenting with these for a year or so
before going looking for more info and finding this list.

There is almost nothing useful or current on gnustep.org - it has
barely changed in a decade.

Everyone I have talked to in the FOSS world regards GNUstep as being
long, long dead. :(


> Anyway, I hope that by testing against debian and supporting debian, ubuntu
> shall work too.

I'm very impressed by your account of all your testing work! It sounds
amazing. This software - and your packages - need *much* more
promotion, I think.

Some of which I can do, but I need to get it working, so I have
something to show people... :-)

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