Re: Package releases at homepage

[Adam Fedor]

On Jan 30, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:

> > My suggestion is to put there references to packages:
>
> > GNUstep-core-x.x.x | Release Info
>
> This is a fantastic idea.  The core package can still keep
> base,gui,back subdirectories, and the "compile-all" script
> already there actually does installation too.  The INSTALL
> file suggests installing things individually, but this is
> probably not so relevant except for developers, and they
> will presumably be using CVS checkout anyway.

Several problems.

1) The libraries are released on different schedules.

2) Compiling everything together works great IF everything goes well, 
but the huge variety of platforms means something goes wrong at some 
point. Then we get a bug report like:

include file "AppKit/NSApplication.h" missing

when the real error was probably installing a previous library.

I think it would be much better to work on an installer package, 
similar to the Windows installer package, that would package together 
stable, tested, library and app releases.