Re: wxWindows Build

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raphaël Enrici [mailto:blacknoz(at)club-internet(dot)fr]
> Sent: 29 June 2003 23:19
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Andreas(dot)Pflug(at)web(dot)de; pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] wxWindows Build
>
>
> Here is my new "plan" :
> may be it's too early to upload pgadmin3 to the official debian
> repository (I'll keep on trying building against wxWindows 2.4, which
> works well for me for the moment... I mean that my package do
> build on
> it about two days ago).
> I'am now building some wxWindows 2.5 packages based on
> checkout of the
> CVS 2003-06-18 (it should be this one unless I did some
> mistake in cvs
> line...) and I patched them with the string.cpp from Andreas Pflug :
> these packages are quite the same as Jean-Michel's one and
> are called : pgadmin3-libwxgtk2ud2.5-contrib_2.5-20030618_i386.deb
> pgadmin3-libwxgtk2ud2.5-dev_2.5-20030618_i386.deb
> pgadmin3-libwxgtk2ud2.5_2.5-20030618_i386.deb
> Please tell me when your patched tarball will be available so that I
> build packages with it.
>
> They are static (no more shared) libraries and headers needed
> to build
> pgadmin3. I prefixed package's name with 'pgadmin3' so to be
> sure there
> won't be a clash with future official debian packages names. These
> packages should not be installed unless you want to do some
> development
> on pgadmin3.
>
> I now build pgadmin3 linked statically against these versions of
> wxWindows (just as Jean-Michel's does with RPMS).
> As I think we can't integrate debian for the moment, we don't
> need to be
> fully compliant with its policy....
>
> As soon as some official debian packages will be available
> that permit a
> good integration of pgadmin3 I will go to some more compliant build.
>
> As I said in the mail before, any suggestions are welcome.

It all sounds good to me. The important thing is that there will be a Debian distro, and as soon as it complies with their rules it can potentially be made 'official'.

> Dave, thank you for the account, don't hesitate to contact me if you
> need some information.
>
> Another thing :
> I need to know the "upstream author" to complete the package
> form from
> debian, who shall I write down ?
> you ? pgadmin development team ? and which email ? yours or
> pgadmin-hackers ?

Officially it's:

The pgAdmin development Team
pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org

Of course, we don't write wxWindows...

Regards, Dave.