Hi, First, thank you for all the good and hard work getting Gambas out there.
I have an urgent request for the Gambas-team people taking care of Gambas stable PPA. Would it be possible to have a PPA where Gambas 3.6.2 is available (a copy for example of the current). The reason I am asking is as follows. At work, I have been working on a complete rewriting of current VB Client applications under Windows/MSAccess to Gambas 3.6.2 client applications under Linux/MySql. This project started december 2013. The rewrites have finished a few months ago and since I have been testing all. I am about to migrate the Windows environment to Linux. For this I need a working Gambas 3.6.2 PPA. Compiling Gambas 3.6 on the local systems will not work. Simply because the installation of the Gambas 3.6 migrated application .debs will not work because of missing dependencies. Why? Well, the distros package management system is not aware of the locally compiled Gambas 3.6.2. and will try to look for a PPA that holds them. Since all my applications are coded for auto-update-install new application versions, using the newer .debs, my auto-update-install mechanisms will not work either! Access to a Gambas 3.7 PPA is no solution as none of the applications where tested against Gambas 3.7 and I do not have a few months time to retest all. The migration is planned for next week! For this reason I need access to a working Gambas 3.6.2 repository, but with the release of Gambas 3.7, the 3.6.2 will soon be updated and no more 3.6.2 PPA will be available. Is it possible to host the 3.6.2 version at launchpad in a separate PPA, so that it will stay available. And wouldn't it be handy to have such a PPA for each last 3.x version. Especially, for those working in a professional environment, where stability is more important that the latest and greatest version of something. I hope some kind of solution will be possible or else the project will have a setback of a few months and my bosses will NOT be happy. It took me quite some time to convince them to make the move from VB/Windows to Gambas/Linux,so this latest Gambas update is really bad timing for me. -- Kind regards, Willy (aka gbWilly) http://gambasshowcase.org/ http://howtogambas.org http://gambos.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
