[Gramps-devel] packaging gramps (for pkgsrc), various issues

[Jeremy C. R. <re...@re...>]

I am a pkgsrc developer.
http://www.pkgsrc.org/
http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/

I have been working on a package for gramps. I have been testing and
developing under NetBSD/i386 1.6.1_STABLE with python 2.2.2 and under
Linux with python 2.3.

If anyone is using pkgsrc (or is interested) and wants to install gramps
using pkgsrc, please let me know. I will import gramps to pkgsrc-wip soon.

I came across various issues. I will mention them in sperate emails for
separate discussion.

These are the issues I came across:

1) configure didn't see my python 2.3.
2) /usr/bin/msgconv: Cannot convert from "ISO-8859-2" to "UTF-8"
3) iconv has wrong switches ... unstandard use of iconv(1)
4) msgfmt says some header fields still have the initial default value
5) gramps fails to run: '_locale emulation only supports "C" locale'
6) double, triple people

I will post separate emails for each above.

Thanks for gramps! It has a nice interface and is fun and easy to use. I
am glad that I can start working on my genealogy again.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/