Re: Package releases at homepage

[stefan]

Citát Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com>:

> 
> 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.
> 

No problem. As I have mentioned: each library release bumps minor version number
of the core package. Say we start with GNUstep Core 1.0.0. Then we release
GNUstep Core 1.1.0 when we release base 1.11.0. It is like you increase -base
version number when you modify/add several functions there - only there is a
shift to higher layer: methods/classes/functions -> subproject. GNUstep core is
meta-package and its components are gnustep sub-projects. Change of subproject
results in change of the meta package.

> 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.
> 

Well, call it as you like: installer package or core package, it is still the
same. Point is to have single GNUstep-Core package with some automated
build/installation mechanism (script). However, it is not the same for sources
and binaries of course. Would be a binary package compatible for all
distributions of linux, for example? I think if they managed Java to be, i see
no reason why GNUstep should be, but I do not see to the internals much.

Stefan Urbanek