Re: Package building

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 19.11.2019 um 00:42 schrieb Sergii Stoian <stoyan255@gmail.com>:
> 
> On Nov 15, 2019, at 10:44, Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 15.11.2019 um 09:13 schrieb Johannes Brakensiek 
>>> <johannes@brakensiek.info>:
>>> 
>>> On 5 Nov 2019, at 1:48, Sergii Stoian wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> I know NEXTSPACE and really like your project! My goals are somewhat 
>>>>> lower currently: I’d be glad if I had some packages for GNU/Linux systems 
>>>>> providing the new runtime/clang based libraries. Default Debian packages 
>>>>> use gcc and I cannot ship a new app on this basis. I don’t like to be 
>>>>> limited to one distribution type though, so I thought about using 
>>>>> something like https://openbuildservice.org/ and/or https://launchpad.net/
>>>>> 
>>>> Oh, now I understand what you’re talking about. I have plan to setup CI 
>>>> environment (Jenkins? Travis?).
>>> 
>>> yeah, that would be great. Maybe you would like to risk a look into 
>>> openbuildservice? Having some installable packages built automatically 
>>> would be great.
>> 
>> 
>> Great that somebody mentions OBS. I have been maintaining GNUstep packages 
>> there for years (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/X11:GNUstep) and am 
>> willing to include NEXTSPACE as well, as soon as somebody provides a spec 
>> file for it.
> 
> OBS can compile packages for CentOS, right? NEXTSPACE repo contains specs for 
> CentOS 7.
> Did you mean specs for OpenSUSE?

OBS has a general spec format that gets used for all environments. Writing one 
for NEXTSPACE should not be too complicated. But if you rely on the art backend 
we are in trouble. A library that is required for this backend is not available 
on some systems and currently I only build the standard cairo backend.
What is it that you are using from art that is not available in cairo? Maybe we 
could improve the implementation there to allow you to switch over.

Fred