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From: | T.J. Yang |
Subject: | Re: GNUstep packaging by TWW tools |
Date: | Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:38:39 -0600 |
No ... but there is little incentive for people to adopt it if it doesn't help packaging for our target systems.
I agree GNUstep win32 has high priority because the vast amount of win32 machine in existence.
TWW tools(and all the software they packaged) are in GPL license so if an OS is notsupported, we can port the tools over.I tried to port the tools to Linksys nslu2, Mac OS X and win32 with some progress but I reach my limit of ability and time.(Now you know I have these three OS at home ;).for TWW and win32, here is my finding and testing sb(software build) tool was ported over quite easily using cygwin.But we don't use/support cygwin for GNUstep on windows ... so, while some people may have cygwin installed, most won't ... so we would need the build tool ported to run without having to install cygwin too.
I remembered I tired mingw first but later back down to cygwin because cygwin was much easier to me.
pb(package build) tool need more thinking because there so many PMSsolutions for win32. Personally I favor WiX becuase it use xml file for describing package building and it is from vendor(MS). Using WiX will make pb wrappermuch easier, it will be just TWW's XML converted to WiX's XML format.currently gnustep win32 is not using WiX for packaging, I hope this can be changed to use WiX. when TWW tools for win32 is ready, the conversion to use TWW willbe easier.That sounds good.
At here ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/base-1.10.1/Install-GNUstep-Development-Environment-1.10.1-bin.exe [Nov 5 2004] 11M
the win32 installer has not been updated for a while. Anyone willing to take on this task ? Package GNUstep win32 using WiX. Regards tj _________________________________________________________________Find sales, coupons, and free shipping, all in one place! MSN Shopping Sales & Deals http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctid=198,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200639
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