Re: Package building

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Johannes,


don't hijack threads :-P I almost missed your mail.

Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
> Another topic that's quite important for me to get into developing a
> serious app is a stable and decent clang build and run environment. I'm
> considering this as important as providing some nice looking graphics
> (which Bertrand is providing f.e.) to make GNUstep GUI a little more
> convenient to use and more successful in numbers of users.

A convenient advice: that is why I love GCC. On *all* my systems except 
FreeBSD and OpenBSD, it is the most reliable way to install and get 
GNUstep running.

> So I'm really missing some packages providing this for GNU/Linux x64
> (and maybe armhf using the runtime version 1.9). I'd like to see this
> being done usinghttps://openbuildservice.org/  f.e. Maybe I'll have some
> time to look into this at the end of the year.

By using GCC, I run GNUstep reliably on Raspberry PI 1 with NetBSD and 
Raspbian, and on PI3 with, again, Raspbian.
Wonderful how data-extraction tools and visualization tools I use on 
other high-end systems with GNUstep run fine on the PI-3, to the point 
where I will probably make a demo-device of it as soon as I can.

> I highly appreciate the hard work of commitment and love of the
> community in the past to achieve what GNUstep currently is. But in my
> point of view it needs some further work and some concentration on
> delivering a convenient user and developer experience today.

Just checked that GWorkspace and PDFKit run fine on NetBSD/amd64 9.99 . 
Some minor fixes where needed.

Riccardo