Re: [XForms] Thanks for the great library!

[Bill Unruh]

Mandriva used to ( at least up to Mandriva 2010.1 ) have xforms included as part
of the package. I have the  .src.rpm that with the xforms.spec
file and I do not think much would have changed except the version of the
file. -- they had 1.0.93sp1 
It would be easy to create a spec file following that for the new package.

I just compiled the old version from that spec file ( well removing a couple
of tests for old version of Mandriva) and it built fine on my Mageia 3 distro.

I just changed the .spec file to use the new 1.2.4 version and it seems to be
have compiled fine. 
Mind you the result does not work-- fdesign gives me a black window which is
hard to kill, so I am doing something wrong, or some library is wrong.









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On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 06:28:52PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> > > That's kind of you! But doesn't RHEL/Centos ship XForms anymore?
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge, no. Unless I'm missing something which is not
> > beyond the realm of possibility either.
> >
> > The rpmforge repo provides an outdated version of xforms (1.0.91) for Centos
> > 6, but I don't think anyone provides it for Centos 7 at all. Until now, that
> > is.
>
> In that case I would be inclined to add that to the page at
> <http://xforms-toolkit.org>. At the moment it states that there
> are no DEP/RPM packages, but if you're willing to host it I'd
> add a link there. For that case: would you mind adding an <anchor>
> tag to make it easier to find on the page?