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Hello all, |
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Fabian Groffen (grobian) and myself have been working on giving |
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some love to GNUstep support in Gentoo, which you can track progress |
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from the gnustep overlay: |
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http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnustep |
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This has now turned in a massive rewrite of the gnustep eclasses and |
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base packages, with the following objectives: |
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* Cleaner and simpler eclasses (easier to read and maintain) and ebuilds |
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(easier to write). This includes removing the need for most of the |
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internal Gentoo/GNUstep variables defined in the current eclasses |
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* Use the new gnustep-make-2 system (needed for new packages) |
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* Less user environment pollution: no need to source a big script that |
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tinkered with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and set a bunch of other variables |
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* Easier user configuration (as in "emerge something and nothing more") |
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* Lots of cleanups here and there (new virtual for gnustep-back, |
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removal of useless global init scripts, fix sandbox issues for some |
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ebuilds...) listed in the overlay web pages |
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User feedback on the overlay is quite positive, so let's hear from |
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-dev now! |
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Latest version of the base eclass (sent with this mail) can be found at: |
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http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnustep/browser/overlay/eclass/gnustep-base.eclass |
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This one does most of the hard work, especially in egnustep_env which |
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sets up an appropriate GNUstep compilation environment from the |
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installed gnustep-make. |
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Default functions are provided for: |
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pkg_setup, src_compile, src_install, pkg_postinst |
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(pkg_postinst points the users to shell scripts that need to be run |
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once as user) |
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Latest version of the gnustep-2 eclass can be found at: |
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http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnustep/browser/overlay/eclass/gnustep-2.eclass |
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This one mostly sets dependencies on a full GNUstep base system and is |
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the one to include in a normal gnustep ebuild |
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For the interested, many other changes lie in the gnustep-base packages |
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in the overlay (most of the environment setting is now done by the |
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gnustep-make ebuild) |
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Feedback, comments, suggestions, other ideas are welcome! |
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Bernard Cafarelli (Voyageur) |
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NX and GNUstep Gentoo developer |
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