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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 <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>

> 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
> <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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 <
> philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> 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
> >>>
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