[Gnupoc-news] makesis for linux

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Hi

makesis for linux is now available for download from here:

http://www.symbianos.org/download/

or if you are a lucky Debian user (like me;) you can add

deb http://ftp.symbianos.org/debian sid main
deb-src http://ftp.symbianos.org/debian sid main

to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

and do:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install makesis


Currently it can produce identical .sis files compared to
the win32 version running on i386 platforms. Big endian
platforms will not work, yet.

I would like to do more work on makesis, but given the
strange license it is released under I am a bit hesitant
to continue any work on makesis. If we are allowed to
redistribute it under an OSI-approved license (GPL, BSD, ...)
the situation would be much better. There I hope that
Symbian get continue the good trend of releasing source
code for various tools, and hopefully with a GPLv2 license.

I have plans of cleaning up all the gnupoc patches and make
some easy-going installation scripts (using wget) to fetch
the SDK, patch it up and setup everything using:

# apt-get install gnupoc-p800cpp
(To install the SonyEricsson P800 SDK including all tools)

My main de-motivator is the licensing issues...


/alfred