[ CCing the GNUstep list as I know very little about porting issues and this app specifically. ]
Andreas Tille wrote: > > May be we now have another target: BioCocoa.app > > > Please go ahead, and if you have any kind of GNUstep-related problems > > -- do not hesitate to contact the GNUstep team. > > The situation is as follows: > > - QA maintained, but Debian Med Packagin team should take over > - Upstream seems to have switched to Mac only. Correct me if > I'm missreading > > http://www.bioinformatics.org/biococoa/ It seems so, unfortunately. Yikes. Maybe if you ask they may provide GNUstep tarballs too. As it stands now, it would be a lot of work for you. > - Latest Upstream version is 1.7 which is slightly higher than Debian > packaged version, but a password seems to be required for > download. I woual ask for a passwordm, but would like to see > whether it makes sense spending time on this issue This works for me: svn co svn://bioinformatics.org/svnroot/BioCocoa The .dmg they provide as "Download" is useless. If you plan to generate a tarball yourself, you must write a GNUmakefile (and maintain it yourself if upstream doesn't plan to support GNUstep). Of course this is a prerequisite to build the app. That's the easy part, even if you have to go with several makefiles. Also, probably you'll have to convert the .nib files to .gorm (with gorm.app); maintaining them is a huge pain from Debian's point of view since they're binary. If upstream didn't resist the temptation to use classes that are not available on GNUstep, you'll have to port the app by rewriting those parts (sometimes this is not trivial at all). I don't see BioCocoa at wiki.gnustep.org under "Applications", which is also a disturbing indication. Probably all of this will be solved by upstream, if you ask. Or not. > - After installing and running the package I assume you mean the current package in the Debian archive? Neither 1.7 nor 2.0 from upstream's repository are buildable. > I get some icon in the > bottom left corner of my screen showing some kind of notepad. > After some seconds this icon vanishes and I get "Aborted" in > the starting xterm Yes, I can reproduce this. > The latest issue is the most burning one. Judging by the backtrace, it is the same bug in gnustep-base that you encountered with adun.app; it got nailed by upstream recently but still present in Debian. > Any hint how I should run this programm to get at least some Like before, the crude workaround is: 1. killall -9 gdnc 2. rm -rf /tmp/GNUstepSecure* > impression whether it is worth spending some time into it? IMVHO if upstream doesn't support GNUstep, it's not worth it. Although 2.0 seems to be a complete rewrite, so it might be something interesting. But not at the cost of doing all the porting work, I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
