Re: Distributing gnustep-based software

--- Sébastien Pierre <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Yes, both Richard and I emailed you similar explanations as to why not.

> > 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.

I'm currently forced to have KDE/GTK installed on my Linux box to have
Konqueror running.
 
> Cheers,
> 
>   -- Sébastien
> 
> --
> «And just as declarative _thinking_ and imperative _doing_ are
> complementary aspects of our daily life, so are declarative and
> imperative styles when it comes to modern computer programming.»
> <http://www.type-z.org>             -- Johan Nordlander, O'Haskell
> 
> 


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Gregory John Casamento 
-- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A MD Corp.)
## Maintainer of Gorm (IB Equiv.) for GNUstep.