Re: ANN: GWorkspace 0.6.5

[Alex Perez]

Enrico Sersale wrote:

> GWorkspace has been splitted in some applications, Desktop, Inspector, 
> Finder, Operation and the file viewers, represented by the old 
> GWorkspace application itself.
> This is a transition release because also the file viewers will be 
> rewritten soon.
> But, for the moment, I want to release this work because I've written 
> many new parts that must be tested.
>
> Some parts needs the new FSNode framework, a collection of classes that 
> encapsulates many NSFileManager and NSWorkspace methods in a simplier 
> API and offers some basical elements to represent files, as icons, icons 
> views, browser cells, etc.
> So, you need to install it first:
>
>   cd FSNode
>   make install
From a packaging point of view (and also from a style point of view) 
this build method is unacceptable. This is exactly what Michael Baehr 
was talking about a mere day or two ago. *EVERYTHING* should build from 
the root of a project directory as long as you have your makefile set up 
properly with subprojects; Your makefiles are not set up correctly. If 
you need some help getting this set up properly, I'm sure either Michael 
or myself will be willing to help you with it. Please do not assume that 
the only people using your program will be compiling it from source. 
We're making a concerted effort out of trying to automate package 
generation, and GWorkspace and other great applications like it are 
compromising our ability to do so.  Don't take this as a personal 
attack, Enrico, but we're feeling rather frustrated that certain bad 
assumptions are being made, and we feel it's high time to raise our 
concerns.
> then you can build the other things:
>
>   cd ../
>   ./configure
>   make install

See above.

Cheers,
Alex Perez
GNUstep.org co-maintainer and
Unofficial Packaging Bitch