Re: cannot install...

[David Ayers]

Am Montag, den 16.02.2009, 09:32 -0600 schrieb Ricardo 'Dino' Strausz:
> Hola Adam y David,
> 
> I went directly to NSGraphicsContext.m and comment some conditional
> lines (where the _gcontext variable appear) and I was able to compile
> all the way up to Gorm... however, macports is not finding GDL2
> anywhere... could you please be so kind to point me to a site where I
> can directly download it? (see log below)

Indeed... it seems that the ftp site only contains 0.9.1 and not 0.10.1
Are there still packages in incoming that I forgot to ask someone to
move?

> to be honest, this is very frustrating...

I'm sorry but we are all doing this on our spare time.  I've tried often
to make a new release of GDL2 but everytime new issues popped up which I
wanted to fix first.  Also I don't have a Mac (i.e. OS X) and don't
believe that Matt has one either.  So we are dependent on volunteers to
keep GDL2 on OS X working.

> I hope this process is finite; if so, I will try to make a .dmg with
> a .mpkg of my configuration and put it in a public place... (can I?)

It would be great if this can make the process for OS X users simpler.
I think we could host it ftp.gnustep.org... Would you be willing to
update it once I finally release 0.11.0?  (Note I can't give an ETA
right now but I'm shooting for the end of the month).

> Since I really do not know how GNUstep works, I decided to follow all
> the 'default' dependencies of GDL2; but, as you are suggesting, GDL2
> should work directly on top of Cocoa + gnustep-base... can you please
> point me to detailed instructions on how to do this?

I don't think we have one.  And since I don't have OS X I can't really
develop one either.  But I think it should be something like

install developer packages of gnustep prerequisites
install developer packages of postresql (and/or SQLite)

download/unpack gnustep-make
cd make
./configure && make && sudo make install

download/unpack gnustep-base
cd make
./configure && make && sudo make install

download/unpack renaissance
make && sudo make install

download/unpack gdl2
make && sudo make install

WRT gdl2 is it an option for you use the version from svn until I get
the tarball issue worked out?

Cheers,
David