Re: [Petitpoucet-user] gpsbabel patches to build library

[Ryan S. <rya...@us...>]

Hi Antoine Thanks for getting back to me.

On Jul 27, 2008, at 07:22, Antoine Hue wrote:

> Hello Ryan,
>
> I will try to answer your questions...
>
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Hi. I'm trying to create a portfile for petitpoucet for MacPorts;  
>> see:
>>
>> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15969
>
> That's cool.
> What is the exact purpose ? A kind of Mac distribution of open-source
> software ?

MacPorts is a package manager for Mac OS X, like APT for Debian or  
Portage for Gentoo. It compiles and installs dependencies, informs  
you of available updates, and also makes uninstalling software easy.

>> I'm discovering that petitpoucet requires a modified version of
>> gpsbabel which installs a library. My question is why your patches to
>> gpsbabel have not been included in gpsbabel itself. I would rather
>> not have to patch gpsbabel in MacPorts. Besides, your patches
>> provided with petitpoucet 0.1.4 are for gpsbabel 1.3.4 (or possibly
>> 1.3.2 [1]) but the version of gpsbabel in MacPorts is 1.3.5 so I'm
>> not sure if the patches will still work.
>
> We had a lot of trouble packaging GPSBabel for our application.
> GPSBabel is an application, even worse a command line application.  
> It is
> exiting at the first error and nothing is done to handle nicely errors
> nor continue executing on other tasks. For example, one of the input
> files is badly formed => application exits.
>
> Our patches are trying to overcome these limitations with the minimum
> amount of modifications.
> I have sent some of these to GPSBabel mailing list but did not get any
> acknowledgment.
>
> Eventually, we got bored. Since release 0.1.4, we have changed our  
> build
> system to CMake (as Open Scene Graph did) and now GPSBabel is part of
> our source code tree. It means I download GPSBabel source code, I  
> patch
> it and I commit it to the SVN repository.

Ok, great. Then I don't need to worry about patching the gpsbabel port.

I understand petitpoucet also requires virtualplanetbuilder so I need  
to make a portfile for that first. Then I'll come back and see where  
I am with petitpoucet.

> We are now working on the release 0.2. If you have any update/patch to
> submit, it is the right time. User guide has not been updated within
> SVN, it is on my todo list.
>
>> [1] It's unclear; the user_guide.pdf says "There is no API and header
>> stability with GPSBabel,  version 1.3.4 is required" but then says
>> "Get GPSBabel source code version 1.3.2".
>
> That's a bug, both sentences will disappear at next update since
> GPSBabel is part of the source code.
>
>> Unrelated: it would be great if you could excise the spam from the
>> mailing list archives. Thanks.
>
> I did some. It requires 3 clicks per message :-(

:-(

> Thanks for all your feed-back.