Re: [rox-users] ROX-Filer on Ubuntu PPC

[Thierry G. <thi...@gm...>]

2008/1/20, Thomas Leonard <ta...@gm...>:
>
> On 17/01/2008, Thierry Goubier <thi...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hum, the -dev packages  of ubuntu took care of everything, so no GLib
> either
> > (I couldn't get the zero install system to compile, so I went the old
> way)
>
> What happened when you tried to compile? Did you get an error?


Well, not really an error, except that the zero-install didn't went into
download and build just for GLib-dev (to the difference of all other
libraries) so I considered it may be an error or a lack of prebuild things
for ppc.

We don't use the distribution-provided GLib headers because they tend
> to be quite new, and compiling against new headers creates a binary
> that doesn't work on older systems.


Ok. I did the rebuild a few times, and it does work fine... including the
part where 0compile reinstall zero-install through zero-install ;-)

Sure, we can do that. Click on Publish after compiling. When it asks
> you for the download directory, use
>
> "http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rox" for ROX-Filer and
> "http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zero-install" for GLib-dev
>
> It doesn't matter too much if you enter the wrong thing, though; it
> only affects the XML file generated.


Done. So I now have rox-filer-linux-ppc-2.7.1.tar.bz2 and
ROX-Filer-2.7.1.xml, GLib-dev-linux-ppc-2.4.8.tar.bz2 and GLib-dev-2.4.8.xml
.

Is that the expected result?

> Well, all thumbnailers are in the same case, for me. On both my systems
> (at
> > work and the iBook), if ROX-Lib2 is only installed by zero-install,
> > thumbnailers like VideoThumbnail (installed by zero-install too) are
> unable
> > to find ROX-Lib2. A small change to findrox.py solves the problem.
>
> That reminded me I was planning to write a blog article about why I
> created findrox and why I'm now trying to get rid of it! Hopefully
> this will clarify things a bit:
>
>   http://roscidus.com/desktop/node/903


Understood, and probably a good idea (but isn't it already implemented with
the requires parts in the xml interfaces?). The only thing there is when a
program register itself say as a thumbnailer; when doing it, it links to
it's implementation and not to the 0launch proxy; as a consequence, when
running, it is unable to find ROX-Lib2.

The thumbnail helper link should point to a 0launch command, then. But, as
with findrox.py, this means adding into programs dependencies on a specific
implementation of zero-install (at least the 0launch command). Not much gain
from removing findrox.py!

I'll try to see if I can modify one of the thumbnailers to get this to work.

Thierry