glademm

[Amadeus W.M.]

Would it be possible to include glademm and dependencies in FC4 extras
please?

The glademm-2.6.0.tar.gz source does come with a glademm.spec file, but
this is what happens when I try to build the rpm:

286) root:/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES> rpmbuild -tb glademm-2.6.0.tar.gz
error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
error: line 11: Unknown tag: Copyright: GPL

I imagine the changes for the FC4 rpm are documented somewhere, so where
can I read about that?

Or is there another gtkmm gui builder that is included in FC4, that does
not use glademm?

Thanks!

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:00 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> Would it be possible to include glademm and dependencies in FC4 extras
> please?
>
> The glademm-2.6.0.tar.gz source does come with a glademm.spec file, but
> this is what happens when I try to build the rpm:
> root:/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES> rpmbuild -tb glademm-2.6.0.tar.gz
>
> error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright
> error: line 11: Unknown tag: Copyright: GPL

Change the Copyright: tag to License:

Copyright: has long been deprecated.
> I imagine the changes for the FC4 rpm are documented somewhere, so where
> can I read about that?

Can't think of anything specific to FC4, but try
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ for a pretty up to date rpm manual.

Paul.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:00:20 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> Would it be possible to include glademm and dependencies in FC4 extras
> please?

Would be possible, but somebody needs to do it. Every package in Extras
needs a packager/maintainer.  Parts of the gtkmm suite are in Extras
already. But as many packagers focus on including software, which is
needed for building other software, it may need more package developers
to add additional packages.

Building package maintenance teams would be possible, too. That means, one
person does the packaging, another person uses the software [heavily] and
does the testing/quality-control.

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 09:36:00 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:00:20 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> > Would it be possible to include glademm and dependencies in FC4 extras
> > please?
>
> Would be possible, but somebody needs to do it. Every package in Extras
> needs a packager/maintainer.  Parts of the gtkmm suite are in Extras
> already. But as many packagers focus on including software, which is
> needed for building other software, it may need more package developers
> to add additional packages.
>
> Building package maintenance teams would be possible, too. That means, one
> person does the packaging, another person uses the software [heavily] and
> does the testing/quality-control.

I use the package heavily, my entire work is based on it. I also tried to
build it from source, but it's looking for fairly old versions of some
gnomemm/gtkmm libraries. I do have the FC4 versions of those libraries
installed, which are the the latest stable (not development), so from what
I can tell, glademm has not kept up with gnomemm and gtkmm. I'd even be
very willing to modify the code, if necessary, and compile it against the
new libraries, but I know nothing about automake and autoconf.

If someone is willing to give it a try with packaging, I'll help in any
way I can.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 10:00:47 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:

[glademm]
> I use the package heavily, my entire work is based on it. I also tried to
> build it from source, but it's looking for fairly old versions of some
> gnomemm/gtkmm libraries. I do have the FC4 versions of those libraries
> installed, which are the the latest stable (not development), so from what
> I can tell, glademm has not kept up with gnomemm and gtkmm. I'd even be
> very willing to modify the code, if necessary, and compile it against the
> new libraries,

Have you contacted the upstream developers about it? Such porting work
wuld best be coordinated with the glademm developers.