Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm2, gconfmm, libglademm installer for Mac OS X

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 19:54, Julian Missig wrote:
> On 12 Jan, 2004, at 13:38, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> 
> >>> Well, anyway, I'll be leaving campus soon and no longer have this
> >>> bandwidth.
> >>>
> >>> The packages are at
> >>> http://skadi.res.cmu.edu/~julian/gtkmm-packages.dmg
> >>
> >> I have downloaded them for safety. I am a bit reluctant to
> >> put binary packages on gtkmm.org until
> >> - I am sure that they will be maintained in future. Isn't
> >> there some central repository for things like this?
> 
> DarwinPorts does not host binary packages. Fink hosts binary versions 
> of their packages... eventually...

I do want to see the discussion in which the Fink people apparently
refused to help you to package gtkmm for Fink. So far I have heard
nothing specific, so I have nothing to tell the people who want gtkmm in
Fink.

>  but these were generated using 
> DarwinPorts, which uses a different path prefix from Fink. Fink also 
> does not use these double-clickable installers like DarwinPorts can 
> produce.

That sounds like a nice feature.

>  osxgnu ( http://www.osxgnu.org/ ) hosts binary packages, but 
> I'm not sure whether they'd host something generated by DarwinPorts.
> 
> >> - The build process is documented. I would like a
> >> README.MacOSX, like our current README.win32 and README.SUN
> >> - I see that you have at least tried to get libtool fixed
> >> instead of patching it locally.
> 
> What more do you want me to do?

Like I say, I would like the build process to be documented, just as it
is for our other unusual platforms.

>  I've contacted all the people I can and 
> no one seems to know why it works like that or give a shit.

For the libtool thing, you could point me to the email discussion in an
archive or a bug report. Then I could take it further if you don't want
to. At least we would have something to point to in our documentation.

> >> I do appreciate your efforts, but I don't want them to be wasted.
> 
> Whatever. I made these so that my users could get gtkmm installed. I've 
> battled with this stuff for so long with so many unhelpful people I 
> honestly don't care whether they're "officially" distributed anywhere. 
> I have something which works, so that's good enough to get Gabber2 on 
> OS X. I'm done as far as I'm concerned.

If gtkmm.org hosts them, then we'd need someone who will package future
gtkmm releases as well. Sorry, but you can't expect anything else.
 
-- 
Murray Cumming
murrayc usa net
www.murrayc.com