[OGo-GNUstep-Port] Re: gstep-make upgrade

[Helge Hess]

On Dienstag, 29. Juli 2003, at 10:46 Uhr, Nicola Pero wrote:
> The original reason for the discussion is that the GNUstep-reset.sh 
> script
> in OGo's gnustep-make was reported not to work - a patch to fix it was
> provided.

I volunteer to make that patch. Takes me 5 minutes instead of some 
hours required to think of consequences in packaging etc when we use a 
current GNUstep make.

> But I don't see why we should be wasting time patching an old 
> gnustep-make
> 1.3.3 rather than simply using gnustep-make 1.7.2 where the script has
> already been fixed ... a couple of releases ago! :-)

Because this is proven to be stable for quite a wide range of systems 
and a packaging process exists which works fine with exactly that 
version.
Did you test gstep-make 1.7.2 on SuSE 6.2 or RedHat 6? What about Sun 
Cobalt Linux? Is the experience of the SKYRIX staff still valid with 
the new release or what tweaks are introduced?

Please! OGo is not a system for *developers* like GNUstep, it's a fully 
deployed mission critical application - any breakage can mean havoc at 
customer sites and I'm not sure whether you are aware of the scale of 
this.
It makes absolutely no sense to upgrade something which apparently has 
no problems.

Again, I don't want to let stay things how they are forever - in an 
ideal world we can just use the prestine gstep-make sources. We can 
upgrade gstep-make when there is time. Last time I cost' me several 
days of work!

regards,
   Helge
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