Re: [anjuta-devel] 3.10 cycle plans

["Arnel A. Borja" <kyoushuu yahoo com>]

Hello Sébastien,

On Thursday, 04 April, 2013 03:48 AM, Sébastien Granjoux wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Le 03/04/2013 15:29, Arnel A. Borja a écrit :
> > If fork is used to execute a program, we could use g_spawn_async to
> > replaceit. Most use of fork in Anjuta is to do that. The only problem is
> > the forkpty emulation which currently I don't know how to implement.
>
> I think forkpty is used only in the launcher object and I think this 
> could be implemented using g_spawn.
OK, I'll try looking at it again. It is now (probably) the only barrier 
for symbol-db to work.

> > I already have some type of an installer infrastructure that uses NSIS,
> > which I already used with gWaei and my programs, so it shouldn't need
> > a lot of time to create one for Anjuta.
>
> I have already done some Windows installers. I have used Wix, it's an 
> open source project. The nice part is that it uses all Microsoft 
> technology. You write a description of your package in xml and it is 
> converted to a .msi file.
Are you using Wix on Linux? I think it's superior than NSIS but I can't 
make it to work in Wine, so I just gave up and stayed in NSIS :).