Re: building a self-contained deployable gnustep

[Julian Mayer]

hello david

> I have some out-of-tree patches that make this quite easy - I wrote them for 
> deploying on WebOS, where I wanted to do the same thing.  I hope to have time 
> to tidy them up (and make sure that they don't break other configurations) 
> soon...

great, thanks. perhaps a wiki page with instructions would be just the right 
thing once they have landed ;-)

> 
> Basically, you can link the GNUstep libraries just as you would others, but 
> they need to be able to find the their resources.  There is some optimisation 
> in NSBundle that, unfortunately, has the side effect of breaking everything 
> when the GNUstep libraries are not where they expect to be.  This primarily 
> means that the time zone data is not in the right place.

hm the time zone stuff is of no concern to me, but i guess GUI also goes wild 
if it doesn't find all its lovely TIFFs and stuff.

> I'm not 100% certain why the time zone data needs to be bundled with GNUstep, 
> since it's present on most systems anyway, so I also want to look at 
> factoring this out a bit.

thanks, i anticipate any improvement here. 

still, i am a bit disappointed, i had expected that all of this would just work 
already, but only insiders know how to do it...

i can't believe that although it being more than 15 years old, no-one so far 
has bundled gnustep with their deployable binary only package?

thanks, julian

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