From: Roeland Moors <roelandmoors@...>
Date: 2004-08-27T23:53:00+09:00
Subject: Re: package glade files

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:36:11PM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
> 
> Chad Fowler said:
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:01:44 +0900, Roeland Moors
> > <roelandmoors@pandora.be> wrote:
> >> I'm creating a project with ruby/gtk.
> >> This program uses glade files for the interface.
> >> What would be the correct place to store these files?
> >> Should I place these files in lib/ ?
> >>
> >> Here is the directory structure RPA suggest:
> >> http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?GoodPractices
> >> But they don't mention glade files.
> >>
> >> I'm asking this because I'm creating packages gem/deb.
> >
> > Great!
> >
> >> Are there gems with glade files as an example?
> >>
> >
> > Not that I know of, but I might be wrong.  I'm afraid I don't have
> > much experience with Glade.  Is there somewhere we could download your
> > code and see how it's laid out?
> >
> >> Wouldn't it be nice if rake could make all these packages in one
> >> step :-)
> >>
> >
> > It _can_ make .tar.gz and gems in one step, but I don't think there's
> > a debian package task yet.  Jim?
> 
> Hmmm ... no deb packager yet.  I've never built a deb package.  If you can
> tell me what's involved (or point me to a web page), I will look into it. 
> The rake supplied package task will handle tar/zip/gem packages currently.
>  Robert Feldt has made some suggestions on making the package task a
> little more flexible, so it would be a good time to see how other formats
> could be handled.

I'm not an expert, but I think making a deb is much more work than
creating a gem.
There is a lot of information an creating a deb package:
http://www.debian.org/devel/

> 
> It would be interesting to know how compatible the GEM metadata spec is
> with the Debian version.  Ideally you want to specify your meta-data only
> once, so I hope we would be able to construct one out of the other.
> 
That would be nice

> In the mean time, if you add a deb task by hand, then make the :package
> task dependent on your .deb file.  Then when you do: "rake package", it
> will automatically build your .deb file along with the tar/zip/gem files. 
> Also tie into the :package_clobber task (I think that's the right name),
> so that the package is properly cleaned up when done.
> 
I'll try that

> Regarding your glade files ... are they used at run time or are they just
> used at build time to construct a GUI?  If they are not needed at runtime,
> then I would keep them out of "lib".  Perhaps etc or src directories,
> depending on whether you view the files as configuration data or source
> code.  If they are needed at run time, then the question is a bit
> different because the directory they reside in will need to be located at
> runtime.  I would suggest either lib or etc in that case.
> 
They are used at runtime.

At the moment I have a seperate glade dir in the source.
I tried to move files with rake when creating a package, but I have to
specify the files in the gemspec before I move or create the files.
This doen't make it easy.



> I hope this helps.
> 
> 
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> -- Jim Weirich     jim@weirichhouse.org    http://onestepback.org
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