Pinta

[Shador]

We need mono and xbuild to compile the program?

Yes. It seems so. But nobody wants to build both of them.
It is some kind of porting M$ logic to Linux, you know.
And this for only providing a "simple" painting application, but there are so weird dependencies.
So, I am out of this, and maybe others too.
This is no trolling.

I understand, it's maybe a simple painting software, but I never found any equivalent. No one to fork this fork without mono and any strange dependencies?

That couldn't be a fork, it would have to be pretty much a complete rewrite from scratch. The reason is that .NET/mono is basically a separate programming language with a mechanism similar to a virtual machine. IMO that approach has some nice advantages especially regarding stability and Microsoft even wrote an OS completely in .NET for testing purposes, but it has some big disadvantages too. Most importantly it's not established in the Unix world.
For reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29

[laprjns]

Well I've got mono built, but pinta also need gtk-sharp which also needs to be build. In the end there's going to be four packages that will be needed, pinta, mono, libgdiplus and gtk-sharp.

[timatou]

Shador Yep, I think I understand

Well I've got mono built, but pinta also need gtk-sharp which also needs to be build. In the end there's going to be four packages that will be needed, pinta, mono, libgdiplus and gtk-sharp.

That represent a lot of work I guess, if I'll the only one to use the software around there, don't waste your time anymore, it doesn't matter.
Thanks again all, for your effort and the informations

[laprjns]

...don't waste your time anymore....

Time wasted

Give me a little more time to upload the packages.

[timatou]

Wow
You rock!!
Thanks a lot and take your time

[laprjns]

Here you go.
http://people.salixos.org/laprjns/pinta ... 86-1rl.txz
http://people.salixos.org/laprjns/mono/ ... 86-1rl.txz
http://people.salixos.org/laprjns/gtk-s ... 486-1r.txz
I will input a ticket for addition to the repository, but that will take a little while. Until then just download and install these three packages manually. The other package was a build time dependency.
Regards
Rich

[timatou]

I know I'll pass for a fool but how do I install them manually? By using install /path/package.txz commande?

Edit: It's ok I install pkgtools and use the installpkg command line ^^'

Work well, but it have some bugs. Obviously because it still a young project, I hope it will have someone to maintain it up to date^^


Thanks again for your work

[thenktor]

Edit: It's ok I install pkgtools and use the installpkg command line ^^'

Don't install pkgtools. You already have spkg-pkgtools installed, which are much faster than original Slackware pkgtools.

[timatou]

Edit: It's ok I install pkgtools and use the installpkg command line ^^'

Don't install pkgtools. You already have spkg-pkgtools installed, which are much faster than original Slackware pkgtools.

Ok good to know