Re: Re: bitpim binary modules breaks Gentoo QA policies

> Right; I also build bmp2avi from source, and symlink to Debian's
> copies of ffmpeg and the relevant netpbm programs.

Note that ffmpeg needs to be built with mp3 support.  Also I
believe that netpbm command line options and binary names
kept changing.

> - Official man pages, in either roff or DocBook format.  It's okay if
>  these defer to the existing HTML documentation for most details, but
>  there should still be *something*. 

Please send me what you have, and I'll add it to the help
directory.  However it is pretty much going to point to the
gui help.  Once we have a command line version of BitPim then
this becomes more important.

> - A comprehensive top-level makefile would greatly simplify the Debian
>  build scripts, which currently have to handle all the subcomponents
>  that require native compilation individually.

Can you send me the script have already and I will add that as
a Makefile.  It won't do any dependency checking, just always
build everything on invocation.

BTW is there a need for it to be a Makefile, or is a shell script
ok?

> 2.3(.5) is the default, but 2.4(.2) is also available, and
> coinstallable.  The wxPython packages currently tie me to 2.3, though.

We are currently tied to 2.3 anyway.  2.4 on Windows uses a newer
version of Microsoft's compiler which requires new C library DLLs
which aren't redistributable with GPL applications.

I believe at some point we'll have to bite the bullet.  Those Windows
users who don't already have the DLLs will have to be pointed at
Microsft.
 
>> ReleaseForge is a gui app using Qt.  In that sense it is a marginal
>> improvement over the web page interface supplied by SourceForge,
>> but it just changes whose silly buttons you have to press.
> 
> Sigh.  I take it there's no good way to rip out its GUI and just use
> the underlying engine?

I didn't look.  But given I asked the author and he wasn't interested
in a command line version, I'd expect that the code isn't remotely
structured in a useful way to make command line work.

Roger


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