Re: Tux Commander Borland Kylix
* elijah wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-05 22:19:07 -0500]: is there any chance that the software could be ported to compile with one of the free pascal compilers? several of those seem quite featureful on debian. No, it uses Kylix components as well, not present in free tools ofcourse. I have already tried it to package it for Debian. It seems to be a no-go. a lot of the problems you will face with this are problems that java folks (prior to the recent availability of high-quality free JVMs) have faced in debian. Exactly. Maybe even harder. Laszlo/GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tux Commander Borland Kylix
* elijah wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-05 22:19:07 -0500]: is there any chance that the software could be ported to compile with one of the free pascal compilers? several of those seem quite featureful on debian. No, it uses Kylix components as well, not present in free tools ofcourse. I have already tried it to package it for Debian. It seems to be a no-go. a lot of the problems you will face with this are problems that java folks (prior to the recent availability of high-quality free JVMs) have faced in debian. Exactly. Maybe even harder. Laszlo/GCS
Re: Tux Commander Borland Kylix
Subject: Tux Commander Borland Kylix I want to package tuxcmd (Tux Commander - great GTK2-based TotalCommander-alike file manager). It's free (code under GPL), but it requires Borland Kylix 3 Open Edition to build it, that is not in Debian and it won't ever be there I think. Also, author provides a compiled binaries of his software. Is it possible ever to see the software in Debian? If so, then in what section? is there any chance that the software could be ported to compile with one of the free pascal compilers? several of those seem quite featureful on debian. something that requires kylix to build is obviously never going to be in main - those things need to be buildable with free tools, AFAIK. nonfree isn't quite right, either, i think - the code you're building is GPL-ish, but won't build without nonfree tools. contrib sounds like a useful slotting for it. it would be useful - to help alleviate problems of this sort - if someone produced a contrib package that could unpack a copy of the kylix open edition under dpkg control :) that would certainly make it easier for other people to work on it, at the very least. a lot of the problems you will face with this are problems that java folks (prior to the recent availability of high-quality free JVMs) have faced in debian. the way to get something into main is to have it be buildable with free tools, obviously. :) elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tux Commander Borland Kylix
Subject: Tux Commander Borland Kylix I want to package tuxcmd (Tux Commander - great GTK2-based TotalCommander-alike file manager). It's free (code under GPL), but it requires Borland Kylix 3 Open Edition to build it, that is not in Debian and it won't ever be there I think. Also, author provides a compiled binaries of his software. Is it possible ever to see the software in Debian? If so, then in what section? is there any chance that the software could be ported to compile with one of the free pascal compilers? several of those seem quite featureful on debian. something that requires kylix to build is obviously never going to be in main - those things need to be buildable with free tools, AFAIK. nonfree isn't quite right, either, i think - the code you're building is GPL-ish, but won't build without nonfree tools. contrib sounds like a useful slotting for it. it would be useful - to help alleviate problems of this sort - if someone produced a contrib package that could unpack a copy of the kylix open edition under dpkg control :) that would certainly make it easier for other people to work on it, at the very least. a lot of the problems you will face with this are problems that java folks (prior to the recent availability of high-quality free JVMs) have faced in debian. the way to get something into main is to have it be buildable with free tools, obviously. :) elijah
