Re: [anjuta-devel] [Fwd: Packaging and deployment using GNOME tools]

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi,

Le 18/12/2010 18:25, Johannes Schmid a écrit :
> A couple of ideas that were discussed were integrating the OpenSuSE
> build service into Anjuta somehow, or using Ubuntu's Quickly templates
> as an Anjuta project type. Well, I asked about this on the ubuntu-devel
> list [1] and people seemed broadly supportive of integrating a packaging
> workflow into GNOME tools. Quickly looks like it could be adapted for
> use in other programming languages (it's all Python at the moment) and
> other distros without too much hassle, for example [2], and another
> project (pkgme) [3] came to light which might be able to do the same
> thing in a more general way.
>
> Is anyone interested in working on this? It could make GNOME development
> *much* easier for newcomers.

I'm currently too busy, working on the new project-manager to really 
work on this. But if it needs some changes in the project-manager, I'm 
interested to see what is needed.


I have looked at one video on Quickly. It is doing almost the same thing 
than Anjuta using the command line. The package creation is only a part 
of its possibilities. By the way Anjuta, can already create package 
quite easily using Build->Build tarball menu item. It doesn't make a 
binary, but a source tarball is still the most standard way of 
distributing something on Linux.

It's possible to make an Anjuta plugin around Quickly but it doesn't 
match the way the functions are split in Anjuta. The project wizard 
plugin is creating a new project, the build plugin is building it, the 
run plugin can run it, the debugger plugin is used to debug it but all 
this is done by Quickly. As all plugins can communicate it's possible to 
write a Quickly plugin that will manage all this but it's difficult.


Else, I have looked at the OpenSuse build service web page but not long 
enough to see how it could help here.


Then, a simple solution is just to add a rpm or deb target to the 
template makefiles and propose a menu item for this in the build menu. 
But I'm not sure it's possible to make something working on any 
distribution as there is no real standard here.


Regards,

Sébastien