Naming conventions for mingw32 packages?

2006-03-09 Thread Volker Grabsch
er to the original names: libsdl1.2-mingw32-dev libsmpeg-mingw32-dev I'd prefer the first one, but what's your opinion? Greets, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- Administrator NotJustHosting GbR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-09 Thread Volker Grabsch
ut even touching any propritary operating system. Probably one could even try to port WIX to Debian, to produce *.msi (Windows installer) files. That's the big plan. :-) Greets, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- Administrator NotJustHosting GbR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Naming conventions for mingw32 packages?

2006-03-09 Thread Volker Grabsch
according to the DLL file "zlib1.dll", i.e.: mingw32-zlib1-dev However, probably there is a good reason to call it: mingw32-zlib1g-dev instead. Which of them should I prefer? Sorry for my questions, but there isn't any "Debian MinGW Policy" out there

Re: Question about packaging a kernel module

2006-03-10 Thread Volker Grabsch
german. But the commands should be self-explaining and will give you a general idea. It uses the kernel source package and "make-kpkg". It's a very elegant way to produce a Debian package containing your new patched kernel. If someone is really interested in that Howto, I

Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-10 Thread Volker Grabsch
uWin32 and has good MinGW builds. But even that package should be included in GnuWin32, because GnuWin32 has a nice installing system (for Windows MinGW). What do you think about it? Is it reasonable? Is it good practice? Is there anything else I should take care of? Greets, V

Re: Question about packaging a kernel module

2006-03-10 Thread Volker Grabsch
ave > any problems :). I left this quote because you sent that mail accidently just to me instead of the mailing list. Greets, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- Administrator NotJustHosting GbR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: Question about rules file

2006-03-11 Thread Volker Grabsch
gt; that file. I just translated one of my howtos to english, maybe that'll help you understand the user's view on Debian kernel packages: https://dev.njh6.de/wiki/index.php/Doc:Compile_Debian_Kernel_with_CTX Greets, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- A

Re: Naming conventions for mingw32 packages?

2006-03-13 Thread Volker Grabsch
uld be named this way: win32-libpng12-dev because a "mingw32-" prefix would be misleading. Greets, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- Administrator NotJustHosting GbR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-13 Thread Volker Grabsch
they use a "repacked source", they didn't provide a README.Debian-source. Are there exceptions from that rule? Greets, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- Administrator NotJustHosting GbR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-13 Thread Volker Grabsch
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:28:24PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Volker Grabsch wrote: > >I'm trying to build Debian cross compiled packages of win32 libraries. > >As upstream sources I use the (already patched) sources from the > >GnuWin32 project. (http://gnuwin32.sourc

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-14 Thread Volker Grabsch
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:21:56PM +1100, Jamie Jones wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 00:28 +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: > > > The extra work of duplicate security fixes is IMHO very small > > compared to the additional infrastructural work of keeping lots > > of Debian

Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-21 Thread Volker Grabsch
ory and into the Debian packages. Is there anything "unclean"? Any suggestions what could be improved? Greets, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- Administrator NotJustHosting GbR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-21 Thread Volker Grabsch
, installing and software distribution system for Windows, which lacks it for decades. However, I don't think that this approach will be widely adopted. Greets, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- Administrator NotJustHosting GbR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto pack python programs

2006-03-26 Thread Volker Grabsch
ecommendations on a similar problem can be found at: http://wiki.python.de/Pfade_f%C3%BCr_Dateien (how to deal with non-python files, where to put them, etc. in a platform independent manner) It's currently only in german, but I'd translate this if someone is interested. Greets, Volker -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- Administrator NotJustHosting GbR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto pack python programs

2006-03-26 Thread Volker Grabsch
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 07:15:12PM +0200, Volker Grabsch wrote: > setup(name='MyProgs tools', > version='1.0', > description='cool progs', > author='Bastian Venthur', > author_email='[EMAI

Cross Compiling for Win32

2006-04-12 Thread Volker Grabsch
-Debian systems. Greets, Volker Grabsch -- Volker Grabsch ---<<(())>>--- Administrator NotJustHosting GbR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]