[tomboy-list] no gmcs in debian (sid) + build errors

[Rich E]

Upon restarting my computer, Tomboy 0.12.2 fired up without the
errors..  so it seems gmcs2 worked fine.  Keep in mind I am using
Debian Sid, not a stable version of Ubuntu or Debian.  I really don't
know what the difference between gmcs and gmcs2 is, but they seem to
both work, so why not let Tomboy be built with them both?

I may be writing beyond my knowledge.. I only was trying to sync my
notes between an old version of Ubuntu and an experimental version of
Debian, which I now can do :)

Excellent work on the program, by the way.  I use it every day now.

regards,
Rich

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Sandy Armstrong
<sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/04/2009 03:11 AM, Pete Goodall wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Sandy Armstrong
>> <sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/03/2009 02:02 PM, Rich E wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just tried building tomboy version 0.12.2, in an attempt to get the
>>>> note synchronization working (did it in version .10? syncing in the
>>>> packaged version of tomboy didn't work for me) and came up with the
>>>> following problems.
>>>
>>> There were many bug-fixes for sync in 0.12.2, so I recommend it over any
>>> previous version.
>>>
>>>> First, there isn't any gcms tool.  I installed mono-gcms which gave me
>>>> gcms2, then symbollically linked to that to gcms so I could build the
>>>> code.
>>>
>>> We recently fixed the bug that hard-coded "gmcs".  You should see the fix
>>> in
>>> any of the recent unstable 0.13.x releases, or in the upcoming stable
>>> 0.14.x
>>> releases.  See ChangeLog or NEWS files.
>>>
>>> I am sorry for you that Debian packagers chose this approach for
>>> packaging
>>> newer versions of Mono.  It makes no sense and will be problematic in the
>>> long run for Debian and Ubuntu users.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Sandy,
>>
>> As Ubuntu 9.04 is still in Alpha I think we should address any
>> potential issues as soon as possible to get them corrected.  I started
>> a question on Launchpad about this:
>>
>> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/tomboy/+question/63055
>>
>> Feel free to supplement my question with more information if you like.
>>  I will try to get an answer.
>
> Pete, I am quite sure it is too late for them to change this.  And it really
> has nothing to do with Tomboy; as I said, I already fixed the places in our
> makefiles where we were hard-coding "gmcs".  Tomboy packages will not be
> broken on Debian/Ubuntu.
>
> In my opinion, the biggest problem is that every piece of documentation ever
> written for Mono will no longer apply to Debian/Ubuntu.  And due to Ubuntu's
> popularity, there will now be a lot of random blog posts, forum posts, and
> wiki pages that apply only to Debian/Ubuntu.
>
> I have no clue what is meant to be gained by this packaging approach. The
> distinction between "gmcs" and "gmcs2" seems completely arbitrary.
>
> But of course, I'm not a packager, and I'm probably missing something
> obvious.  Still, I think this is going to hurt everybody in the long run.
>
> Best,
> Sandy
>