Re: Distributing gnustep-based software

[Sébastien Pierre]

Le 4 févr. 05, à 19:37, Gregory John Casamento a écrit :

> All but #1.  I'm confused, however, first you want avoid installing 
> GNUstep
> altogther (by linking with it statically), and then you want to install
> GNUstep, even if the user currently has GNUstep, but you don't want to
> interfere with thier installation of it.

Well, this was based on the fact that Richard told that there are some 
resources on which GNUstep relies --  which implied that a standalone 
binary was not quite possible.

> Wouldn't it be easier to simply tell the user that your program 
> requires
> GNUstep and point them to the appropriate directions for installing it 
> on their
> system?

Sure, it may be easier. It's just that I wanted to link most of the 
libraries I use statically, and don't force people to install GNUstep, 
for just one app, that doesn't even really use GNUstep very deeply.

Cheers,

 -- Sébastien

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