Re: Running Gorm these days on Debian wheezy/sid system

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 21.06.2012 um 17:00 schrieb Gregory Casamento:

> This is not a Gorm issue, but a problem with initializing the backend.
> 
> That being said, I'm not sure why the debian packagers aren't testing
> the apps with the existing packages.   I can't confirm that they're
> not, only that it SEEMS like they're not based on this kind of thing
> happening.
> 
> Nevertheless, perhaps the onus is on us to produce more consistent
> releases.  Anyway...
> 
> For a while now, however, I've been toying with the idea of having my
> server automatically create daily, monthly or weekly debian packages
> and also serving a debian package repo so that we could simply point
> people there to keep up to date.  Just a thought.

It is a good idea. I am doing it almost that way with mySTEP/QuantumSTEP
for a while and it works fine and simplifies life. Especially since I 
cross-compile
i386, armel and mipsel packages. I just  test&debug on one machine and
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade does the magic of distribution.

I had mentioned it (very briefly) in my FOSDEM 2012 presentation:

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2012#List_of_submitted_talk.2Fdiscussion.2Fsession_proposals

direct link (page 3):

http://download.goldelico.com/quantumstep/FOSDEM%202012.pdf

So my recommendation is to go forward. A tricky thing is to have
all package makefiles include a definiton for package dependencies
that end up in the .deb. And there should be some meta-packages
to make initial installation easier.

Nikolaus



> 
> Later, GC
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I purged first every GNUstep application and framework, the wholw
>> gnustep from my system because can't run neither Gorm nor
>> ProjectCenter.
>> 
>> After that I install again projectcenter.app and with it come
>> dependencies.
>> 
>> I have installed now Gorm version: 1.2.16-1.
>> 
>> When I start Gorm, I get the following messages:
>> 
>> Gorm
>> 2012-06-21 07:31:18.199 Gorm[20098] Did not find correct version of
>> backend (libgnustep-cairo-020.bundle), falling back to std
>> (libgnustep-cairo.bundle).
>> 
>> 2012-06-21 07:31:18.200 Gorm[20098] NSApplication.m:304  Assertion
>> failed in initialize_gnustep_backend.  Unable to find backend
>> libgnustep-cairo
>> 
>> Gorm: Uncaught exception NSInternalInconsistencyException, reason:
>> NSApplication.m:304  Assertion failed in initialize_gnustep_backend.
>> Unable to find backend libgnustep-cairo
>> 
>> This is the situation these days on Debian wheezy/sid system when one
>> want to uses Gorm and ProjectCenter installed from Debian repository.
>> 
>> --
>> Regards from Pal
>> 
>> 
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