On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:16 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Christoph <chrdr@gmx.at> wrote:
Hi,
I have just adopted the package xmind (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22394) because the former maintainer disowned it, and I am not shure which is the best way to build the package.
There are three possibilities:
1) Building from source 2) Building from the "Portable" zip-file (see http://www.xmind.net/downloads/) 3) Building from the deb-files provided for Debian/Ubuntu (see http://www.xmind.net/downloads/)
ad 1) This is what you would usually do, but according to http://groups.google.com/group/xmind-dev/browse_thread/thread/d68d0c8f30b4b4... the eclipse ide would be a prerequisite, so that would need a very large download if you do not already have installed eclipse (nearly 170 MB for eclipse plus 10 MB for the xmind source code!)
ad 2) This was the way the former maintainer went. Download size: 75 MB The portable zip-file contains both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions, so the PKGBUILD just had to copy the right files.
ad 3) When I proposed (a year ago) to use the deb-files instead in order to have smaller downloads (each of them, 32-bit and the 64-bit has appr. 36 MB), the maintainer told me that this would be ugly and "not the Arch way", that he would not do such a thing. When I told him that I did not get the point of it, since the zip file equally just installed ready-built binaries, he did not respond to it.
I still think that using the deb-files would - in this special case - be the best option. But of course I would never dare to deviate from "the Arch way" (since it is the way to world domination, as we all know ;-)).
What do you think?
Christoph
I always prefer a package build from source, but if it's provided in a portable zip, that is a valid option in this instance. I would say go with option 2.
Cheers!
It looks like in this case the content of the portable zip is identicaly (just about) to the content of the deb, just that the debs are arch-specific. I'd think its simpler to just go with option 3. Its surprising that any project REQUIRES eclipse to build though, eclipse can generate makefiles which can be shipped with source....