Re: Supported library/package versions

[Harry Thijssen]

Hi Friedrich

2015-06-26 15:18 GMT+02:00 Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>:

Hi Harry,

Am 26.06.2015 um 12:23 schrieb Harry Thijssen <address@hidden>:
> I think this is still a good idea. Maybe a preferred range for all the pacakes used by PSPP is better. Knowing which versions are used/appreciated by the developers might be useful for the package builders.
> If I use an older version as the developers I might encounter problems which can easily solved by upgrading.

You mentionend some time ago that you crosscompile for windows on opensuse. Does the crosscompile work in such a way that
you can chose the library versions for the windows target arbitrarily? Or are the library versions bound by the current version you have
on the opensuse host system?

I use the mingw packages current, at the moment I create my build virtual PC, which are available for the openSUSE version where I build on. (For the GTK2 builds that is openSUSE 13.1 and for the GTK3 builds it is 13.2)  If there is no version available, as for Sourceview 3, or too old, as for Pixman, I can build my own package, independent from what is installed on openSUSE. Look at it as some kind of a virtual mingw environment within my (virtual) openSUSE machine

So easiest is to use packages provided, but if there is a good reason I can change that. Off course I might run in trouble because of dependencies etc.

Would it make sense to say that we support certain distributions like

macports
debian 7 (old stable)
debian 8 (current stable)
debian sid (unstable)

? If you have the free choice for your library versions, could you then select a set of library versions such that they are the same as
in one of the above distributions? Or maybe some other distribution that is more convenient for you such as opensuse 13.2?

Friedrich

It might be possible but would mean a lot of work.  I prefer just to use non-standard packages if needed.  I used to keep this stable for about a year or so and then upgrade to newer packages.
For the GTK3 version I use:

Packages used for the 32bits build.

atk                   2.16.0
cairo-fc              1.14.2
cairo-ft              1.14.2
cairo-gobject         1.14.2
cairo-pdf             1.14.2
cairo-png             1.14.2
cairo-ps              1.14.2
cairo-script          1.14.2
cairo-svg             1.14.2
cairo-tee             1.14.2
cairo-win32-font      1.14.2
cairo-win32           1.14.2
cairo                 1.14.2
fontconfig            2.10.92
freetype2             16.1.10
gail-3.0              3.14.2
gail                  2.24.23
gdk-2.0               2.24.23
gdk-3.0               3.14.2
gdk-pixbuf-2.0        2.30.8
gdk-win32-2.0         2.24.23
gdk-win32-3.0         3.14.2
gio-2.0               2.44.0
gio-windows-2.0       2.44.0
glib-2.0              2.44.0
gmodule-2.0           2.44.0
gmodule-export-2.0    2.44.0
gmodule-no-export-2.0 2.44.0
gobject-2.0           2.44.0
gsl                   1.14
gthread-2.0           2.44.0
gtk+-2.0              2.24.23
gtk+-3.0              3.14.2
gtk+-win32-2.0        2.24.23
gtk+-win32-3.0        3.14.2
gtksourceview-3.0     3.12.3
harfbuzz-icu          0.9.29
harfbuzz              0.9.29
icu-i18n              53.1
icu-io                53.1
icu-le                53.1
icu-lx                53.1
icu-uc                53.1
libglade-2.0          2.6.4
libpng                1.6.11
libpng16              1.6.11
libxml-2.0            2.9.0
pango                 1.36.8
pangocairo            1.36.8
pangoft2              1.36.8
pangowin32            1.36.8
pixman-1              0.32.2
zlib                  1.2.8

I changed my procedures during the conversion to GTK3 so the packages used are always listed for example in http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/2015-06-24-DoNotUse/

BTW for the people on this list. This is a fully functional GTK3 build. You can test it if you want. And for the skilled users among you have a look at the debug version. GDB is integrated in that package and it is easy to use even for not developers. It might be useful for bug hunting on MSWindows.

Have fun