Re: [Wxlua-users] wxLua packaging

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On 2/12/06, Francesco Montorsi <f18...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi,
>     as you can see, I start to think to the first release of wxLua ;)

It probably should happen soon enough. I need to remove and cleanup a
little more duplicate code, but I think that everything works well
enough.

> So, let's discuss this issue.
>
> I'd make a total of 4 releases:
>
> 1) a win32 MSI install package. This can be generated using InnoSetup
> and it should distribute all wxLua tree including EXE, doxygen generated
> docs and .lib files, all built in release mode, possibly against a
> static build of wxWidgets.

Maybe it would be easier to just have a zip? Developers will probably
be used to unzipping things where they want them. The final product
the wxLua.exe could use an installer, but I know nothing about using
them.

> 2) a source package with doxygen generated documentation.
>
> 3) an Autopackage for 32bit linuxes. it should distribute exactly the
> same things as the win32 MSI package, possibly built with latests GCC (
> I think that building with 4.0.x lets us to support all gcc versions
> after 3.2.3 [which broke the ABI, IIRC]).
>
> 4) an autopackage for 64bit linuxes.
>
> I think there's no need to discuss about #2 ;)
> About #3, #4, I sincerely admit I've never autopackaged anything up to
> now but the project looks *very* promising and it lets us to be
> indipendent from distro-specific systems like RPM, DEB, EBUILD, etc. but
> still provide binaries of the project.
>
> What's your opinion ?

I unfortunately know almost nothing about this. Autopackage will build
the spec files for RPMs and the other packages? I'll google it.

-John Labenski