RE: new to group, request clarifications

[a b]

> installer that requires standard GNUstep install, or with my script I
> build the self contained blob, which buts all mingw and gnustep core
> inside the app bundle resources.
 
Would you be willing to share the blob script?  I would be curious to see it.
 
Thanks

 

> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:49:56 +0100
> From: riccardo.mottola@libero.it
> To: a_bright2@hotmail.com; discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: new to group, request clarifications
>
> Hi,
>
> a b wrote:
> >
> > I want to thank everyone who replied to my questions for their excellent
> > responses. Unfortunately there were a couple of questions that I
> > forgot to include
> > in my previous post.
> >
> > 1) Reference #1 below talks about two problems in using ProjectCenter.
> > For myself, these are minor so they would not be a show-stopper.
> > Have these problems been resolved? I only ask because the comments
> > were made in 2011, so it's possible they are already fixed.
> I don't know about windows, I didn't test since quite some time. I will
> check.
>
> ProjectCenter on Unix generates makefiles, i recently fixed some details
> there too, the makefiles generated can be then run inside mingw.
> ProjectCenter also opens Gorm files correctly on Unix.
>
> My standard workflow is to create the project and most of it under Unix,
> possibly sharing the resources with Mac.
>
> usually I do as a development workflow:
>
> 1) put sources in CVS/SVN
> 2) create an XCode project and ProjectCenter+Makefiles to support
> natively Mac and GNUstep. I commit makefiles to the source control system
> 3) develop and test natively on both platforms (if Mac is required).
> 4) once the project is created, it has makefiles and thus you can
> compile and test on other platforms easily (e.g. I may develop on my
> FreeBSD workstation and my Linux laptop, then test with just a "make" on
> a solaris server, embedded platform, etc
> 5) variant of 4) is to do the same on Windows, just "make" inside the
> project will generate the appropriate executable
>
> 6) to package sources, "make clean && make dist"
>
> 7) to package binaries:
> 1) on mac, usual workflow with xcode
> 2) I don't do binaries on Unix, distirbutions are expected to get
> the sources and package them
> 3) on windows I create the binaries and then either create a NSIS
> installer that requires standard GNUstep install, or with my script I
> build the self contained blob, which buts all mingw and gnustep core
> inside the app bundle resources.
>
>
> Riccardo