Re: Problem installing bundles without GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,


On 22/01/2017 00:39, Matt Rice wrote:
> FWIW, I always found pmanagerhttp://gna.org/projects/pmanager
> to have a much more sane architecture than PC...
> it hasn't seen activity in a long time however...

to each its own...

> Additionally for bundles there is the foo_COPY_INTO_DIR...
> you can see it used here
>
> https://github.com/gnustep/gdl2/blob/master/EOAdaptors/PostgreSQLAdaptor/LoginPanel/GNUmakefile

I think that technically you should create an aggregate project in PC, 
having your application and the bundles as subprojects. But I don't know 
if you can get any further as far as to specify where to install the 
bundles. Could be a feature to add in the future, if it is not there or 
if it doesn't work it needs to be fixed.

I patched up PC in the past years, but never used aggregate projects 
myself, using separate framework+app where I had to.

On XCode you do it that way (see TalkSoup as an example), each bundle 
has a target and then the app has a "copy" phase. For bundles it is fine 
but for frameworks it is a mess since each framework needs to know if it 
is compiled for system or local resource usage!! so While it looks fine, 
I hate the XCode mess there too.

Riccardo