Re: Distributing gnustep-based software

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 4 Feb 2005, at 18:37, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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?

This is quite reasonable when selling a package to a dumb corporate.
They just want to be able to run a simple package installation (perhaps 
just
un-tarring an image) and then type a simple command to run the 
application.

You can do that quite easily by giving them a simple shell script which 
sets
up the environment to use the correct installation of GNUstep ... then 
you don't
care if they have an older installation lying around on the machine, 
and you
don't care if someone else has installed another version of GNUstep 
anywhere.