Re: Brutal review…

[Thomas]

Last time when I installed Gnustep on my Raspberry I used gnustep-buildfrom Patryk Laurent.

I had some trouble as a Mac-User and  LINUX novice to find out what is necessary as the installation didn´t run complete.

First: It stopped due to missing libs  ->  /etc/apt/sources.list    multimedia repositories necessary (for Debian).

Maybe it would possible (useful) to test the entries in the list per script?

Second: The path of installation. Is it possible to link to the /usr/local  when the installation is in /usr/GNUstep per script automatically? It would have the effect that all apps from the „normal“ Debian xfce or Gnome Surface

are also in the App-Menue in the Window Manager and normal LINUX user wouldn´t have the feeling that everything is totally strange …..

This guy who was the the reason for this talk would drive a car via vi and Terminal  if such a would exists and never arrive elsewhere… :-)

 

Am 18.10.2023 um 16:42 schrieb Daniel Boyd <danieljboyd@icloud.com>:

Right—your packages install into /usr/local instead of /usr/GNUstep, right?

I kind of like the /usr/GNUstep setup, but I could also see the Debian people preferring the other. I think the official packages should probably mirror what Debian would want. And ultimately I think the goal would be for the only difference between the Debian and “official gnustep repo” packages would be that the Debian ones are stale as of the latest Debian stable release.

So for example, you could have a developer using the Debian packages and then decide she wants to use some new feature that was added to libs-base subsequent to the latest Debian stable release and then she could flip over to the gnustep official repo and get the latest build, but same folder structure, etc.

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On Oct 18, 2023, at 09:30, Andreas Fink <afink@list.fink.org> wrote:



consensus on how official packages should be built. descriptions etc. and ill set aside a repo for it. it can also host apps etc but that has to be built by someone else

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On Mittwoch, Okt. 18, 2023 at 3:16 PM, Daniel Boyd <danieljboyd@icloud.com> wrote:

That’s awesome—let me know if I you can use any help

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On Oct 18, 2023, at 09:05, Andreas Fink <afink@list.fink.org> wrote:



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i do that already. I volunteer to host an official one. I run a ISP Backbone across Europe and Africa with multiple 100G links so Im ready for a lot of downloads :-).

I usually build into /usr/local for my own use. Im not sure how the old packages where built. But i would be ready to rebuild the "official way with clang /ARC support etc. My personal use is mainly gnustep-base for my ulib project as my apps dont need a desktop gui. But i usually build / package gui/back as well.

Debian12 on amd64 and arm64 is what I build regularly. arm32bit for Raspberry Pi as well but thats on Debian 10 (and takes forever to build). Risc-V i tried but failed due to missing clang (would have to build that from source which takes forever). But hopefully we will get there eventually.

So once we decide the parameters and build structure we want, we can make it happen.

On Mittwoch, Okt. 18, 2023 at 2:35 PM, Daniel Boyd <danieljboyd@icloud.com> wrote:

I haven't followed all discussions but if there is someone who sets up a private debian repository for all gnustep related packages and maintains it, everyone could contribute. And it just needs an additional entry in /etc/apt/sources.list or a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d