Re: GNUstep packaging by TWW tools

[T.J. Yang]

> No ... but there is little incentive for people to adopt it if it  doesn't 
> help packaging for our target systems.

I agree GNUstep win32 has high priority because the vast amount of win32 
machine in existence.

> > TWW tools(and all the software they packaged) are in GPL license so  if an 
> > OS is not
> > supported, we can port the tools over.
> >
> > I tried to port the tools to Linksys nslu2, Mac OS X and win32 with  some 
> > progress
> > but I reach my limit of ability and time.(Now you know I have these  three 
> > OS at home ;).
> >
> > for TWW and win32, here is my finding and testing
> >
> > sb(software build) tool was ported over quite easily using cygwin.
>
> But we don't use/support cygwin for GNUstep on windows ... so, while  some 
> people may have cygwin installed, most won't ... so we would  need the 
> build tool ported to run without having to install cygwin too.

I remembered I tired mingw first but later back down to cygwin because
cygwin was much easier to me.

> > pb(package build) tool need more thinking because there so many PMS
> > solutions for win32. Personally I favor WiX becuase it use xml file  for 
> > describing
> > package building and it is from vendor(MS). Using WiX will make pb  
> > wrapper
> > much easier, it will be just TWW's XML converted to WiX's XML format.
> >
> > currently gnustep win32 is not using WiX for packaging, I hope this  can 
> > be changed
> > to use WiX. when TWW tools for win32 is ready, the conversion to  use TWW 
> > will
> > be easier.
>
> That sounds good.


At here ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/base-1.10.1/

Install-GNUstep-Development-Environment-1.10.1-bin.exe    [Nov  5  2004]     
11M

the win32 installer has not been updated for a while.

Anyone willing to take on this task ?  Package GNUstep win32 using WiX.


Regards

tj

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