Hi Philipp, It's a long time I haven't built rpms - I know the principles of building them but it's a very basic - poor - knowledge. Tell me if no one can help, and I'll check my records ...
I thought that a member of the Syncany team was currently working on a windows port on a separate branch ? For Windows setup.exe, I often use inno setup (for my job) and I can start writing an inno setup script for installing Syncany with ? Maybe in collaboration with the developer working on the Windows port ? An idea for testing the package : an efficient solution is to test on virtual machines ( Virtual boxes ) : fresh / base install of the Operating System, then take a reference snapshot before testing the Syncany package installation. Reverting to the snapshot is fast, and allows to test again as if we were in a fresh install. Best Regards, Thierry 2011/5/31 Philipp Heckel <[email protected]> > Hey all, > > Regarding the dependencies: I tried to simply the dependency-issues by > (temporarily) adding all required JARs (except java-gnome) to the > 'lib' folder. That makes it easier for the Windows version and for > development. > > @Thierry: No there is no functional version on Windows yet. > > I have used Inno Setup before. It's a great Tool for creating > setup-files. I think we should start thinking about packaging. On > Linux (*.deb, *.rpm), and on Windows a setup.exe. > > Do you (or anybody else) have experience with either one of them? > > Cheers, > Philipp > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Philipp Heckel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Stefan, > > > > that's what I thought... I currently do not store the JARs in the repo > > at all, but I'll add then later so you don't have to assemble them :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Philipp > > > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Stefan Mai <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Philipp, > >> When you build Syncany under Windows, where in the repository are you > >> storing dependencies? I'm having a bit of trouble assembling the correct > >> versions of all the missing jars. > >> Thanks, > >> Stefan > >> > >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Philipp Heckel < > [email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi everyone, > >>> > >>> With regard to the variety of Linux distributions and other OSs > >>> Syncany is (hopefully) going to be used on, I think we need to do some > >>> sort of dependency management. Some packages are available on some > >>> systems, others are not. Especially on Windows (and OSX?), all > >>> dependencies have to be shipped with the application. > >>> > >>> Does anybody know how other projects do that? > >>> > >>> >From the top of my head, I'd suggest to have all required JARs in the > >>> library folder and write different Ant scripts for the different > >>> platforms. However, that would mean that the library folder would > >>> become very large very quickly... > >>> > >>> Any other ideas? Comments? Anybody interested in doing that? Would be > >>> of great help! > >>> > >>> I think the above dependency issues are also relevant for the plugins > >>> and their dependencies. I believe carrying around all the plugins with > >>> the main application is not a good thing, because most people will use > >>> only one or two of them. I think it would be great to have one JAR > >>> file per plugin and the possibility to put them in a plugin folder > >>> (e.g. ~/.syncany/plugins). > >>> > >>> Again, I could really use some help with this so I can concentrate on > >>> the main synchronization algorithm. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Philipp > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > >>> Post to : [email protected] > >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > H3 11, 68159 Mannheim, Germany > Landline: +49-621-98181881 / Cell phone: +49-173-7865012 (o2 network) > Public Key: 0xBD5E122F at pgp.mit.edu > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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