On Fri, 08 Feb 2008, Szakáts Viktor wrote: [...] > With all due respect if someone creating an official > binary release is not able to do this, we may have some > other problems too.
Viktor, the most important is that it will be necessary to make some modifications before compilation. I intentionally always tried to reduce them to avoid problems and typos during manual updating. I do not expect that packager will have any deep knowledge about OS or programming. I only want to ask him to run one of the build script and send us the results. It will greatly reduce differences between binary builds of the same release we had in the past. I also think that it will be good to add sth like make_tgz.sh for Windows users who do not use *nix like shell for BCC, MSVC, POCC binaries. We also still do not have make_os2.cmd which is necessary for OS2 users - now they are using make_gnu.cmd from older Harbour versions or from xHarbour. > As an alternate solution we might as well distribute > all those headers as a separate download, so that all > headers can be copied to one dir, or to each contrib > dir, and do the build as usual. This way it's not in > the SVN, but still easy to access for everyone with > just one easy extra step (to be done once) to extract > to /include/. > I can even prepare such a file. > What do you think about it? It will help and maybe it's quite good final solution though it will not resolve the problem of RPMs for cross builds when user do not have write access to cross compiler environment. But I do not understand why it's important to make the packagers' life harder during RC tests. We already spend more time discussing it then it's worth. Anyhow I'll update spec files and add optional support for zlib so if someone will want create Harbour RPMs native or for cross build (Win32 and WinCE) with ZLIB support then it will be necessary to use --with zlib switch. Of course after adding the header files to one of include paths. At least it will reduce the problem. > I can understand your POV and I'd definitely miss your > contributions. I also plan to move away, especially since > I still have no direct business interest in contributing > to Harbour, but other things are constantly growing on me. > Maybe making a few clients switch to the Win32 version of > my app could change that. Each of us has own life which is the most important of us. I will also miss your contributions. best regards, Przemek _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
