Re: [Swarm-Support] Make error

[Scott Christley]

Hello all,

Finally made it back onto the support mailing list seems I was bounced long 
time ago, here I thought the list was just silent...

Anyways I made a 2.3.0 source code tarball awhile back which is on the Swarm 
website though not announced as a release.  This contains all of the patches 
and up-to-date code before I got my fingers into things and swirled it all up.  
There is Swarm_2_3 release branch in SVN.

The SVN main development branch contains all of the objc runtime abstraction 
work and likely has broken a number of things.

I think we should offer two choices.  For those who want a very stable release, 
that they can run their old Swarm applications upon, we should have a Swarm 
2.3.X release branch that keeps those people happy.  I'm trying to get this 
release branch into Debian (and thus into Ubuntu).  Paul, I think if you want 
to do your RPM work on the 2.3.X release then that would be great.  We can keep 
that up-to-date with the new Fedora, etc.

For those we want to use the new Mac work or GNUstep or just like to be on the 
bleeding edge, then a 2.4.x (or currently SVN main branch) is for them.

Scott


On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Steve Railsback wrote:

> On 1/27/2011 12:18 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
>> The last time I was building Swarm was June, 2010, and with more recent 
>> Ubuntu, it was necessary to use the newest
>> version of Swarm from the version control system.  I am trying to 
>> reconstruct in my mind the situation, but nobody at
>> Swarm.org officially said there was a release 2.4, but I did take a snapshot 
>> and say "this is 2.4" and I built RPM and
>> DEB packages for it.
> 
> So, Paul, may I ask about your latest Ubuntu package? I'm thinking about 
> a new computer and whether this might be the way to install Swarm. I 
> don't have any experience with Ubuntu though.
> 
> You have a binary distribution for a current version of Ubuntu? Of Swarm 
> 2.4?
> 
> The last time I messed with Swarm from the repository, there was a 
> change that Scott made: the class "Zone" was re-named "SwarmZone". Is 
> that change in your distribution?
> 
> What about all the dependencies like Tcl/Tk and BLT? Are they in Ubuntu 
> or in your distribution, or need to be installed separately? (In other 
> words, what all does it take to make the whole thing work?)
> 
> Finally, I see your Ubuntu directories are labeled "amd64", vs. "x86 
> 64". Does that indicate something I should know about what hardware it 
> works on?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Steve
> 
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> Steve Railsback
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