[gtkmm] Re: gtkmm2/gnommm2 RPM .spec files

[Vladislav Grinchenko <vgrinche integ com>]

Murray,

I read your reply. Searching RedHat 8.0 packages list I didn't see
gtkmm2/gnomemm2 included. For whatever reason RedHat decided not to
include libraries in their distribution. Sounds like the spec files are
not in tarballs either. If I am a user of a gtkmm2-based application, I
should be able to get RPMs both for the application and for the
libraries it depends upon. Ultimately, I would like to have RPMs for the
libraries on my distro's CD. If not, they should be on rpmfind.net or on
project's home page. If not, then I should be able to download a tarball
and make a package out of them with % rmp -bp ... . What I don't want to
do is to download tarballs, compile, and install them to /usr/local. I
have no problems with doing it myself, but I don't want a casual user to
have a development system installed and learn how to build libraries.
Like with any other application, if it is hard to install, no one is
going to even try it.

I think gtkmm/gnomemm is very fine wrapper that should be used more by
the open source projects. However, the only way we can get more
developers if it would be no-brainer to install it with distro's native
packaging system.

-Vlad

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 13:44, Murray Cumming wrote:
> Vladislav Grinchenko <vgrinche integ com> wrote:
> > One way or the other, we would need spec files in all tarballs for
> > Gtkmm2/Gnommm2 and related libs.
> 
> So you didn't read my reply? If we only trust RPMs from distros and if distros
> always use their own spec files, then why do we need our own. In pratice, it
> just encourages dodgy 3rd-party RPMs.
> 
> 
> Murray Cumming
> murrayc usa net
> www.murrayc.com
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