On 28 September 2013 13:27, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote: > > do you mean source tarballs? those we have.. .and building is up to you. > Except perhaps the core system which requires tweaking, all the rest is a > matter of configure && make install or even just make install.
To be honest, I have not built anything much from source in about 10-15 years now. That reminds me of the bad old days of the mid-1990s when I started experimenting with Linux. 95% of stuff I ever want is in the Ubuntu repositories. Very very occasionally I download a .deb and install it (e.g. Google Chrome, Skype, VirtualBox). If there is a repository for the program available, I add it and then it's upgraded every few days with the rest of my OS. I can't remember the last time I built anything from source. Not for 4-5 years, I think, and then it was an extreme rarity. I do not even have Gcc on my systems. > This is very strange. I use GWorkspace daily. Which version are you using? I > hope not the debian packages: they are so old that it is a shame (3 releases > behind), the bug fixed since that release is enormous. Yes, that is what I have been using - the GNUstep tools included in Ubuntu/Debian. I had been experimenting with these for a year or so before going looking for more info and finding this list. There is almost nothing useful or current on gnustep.org - it has barely changed in a decade. Everyone I have talked to in the FOSS world regards GNUstep as being long, long dead. :( > Anyway, I hope that by testing against debian and supporting debian, ubuntu > shall work too. I'm very impressed by your account of all your testing work! It sounds amazing. This software - and your packages - need *much* more promotion, I think. Some of which I can do, but I need to get it working, so I have something to show people... :-) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
