[MonoDevelop] Deployment for desktop applications

[Sergey Lobko-Lobanovsky]

Hello Derek,

I am using MD for developing social games :)

Best,
Sergey

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Derek JW Cahusac de Caux <
derek at azuregulf.com> wrote:

> Thanks Michael & Quandry for your responses - I'll investigate further
> along the lines you've both suggested but this does raise a few
> questions, if not concerns...
>
> Michael mentioned that 'there hasn't been a huge demand' for packaging
> which makes one wonder what developers are using MD for and how - is
> there any 'public' info on this? Are we looking at tens, hundreds,
> thousands of MD developers..?
>
>  From looking at the various 'packaging' options out there (almost all
> seem to be command line driven) it seems that this is huge task simply
> because of the open systems arena - packagers are trying to be all
> things for all systems...maybe MD could start by implementing packaging
> (compiled binaries+dependencies+files, installer, launcher and
> un-installer) for just one "system"...any thoughts?
>
> Quandary emailed  on 25/10/10 11:23:
> >  I still wanted to add 3 things:
> >
> > 1. As a commerical solution, you can use InstallAnywhere (.bin files
> > you see for example in Google Earth, Sybase, or Oracle Java). I'd not
> > do that however, as it doesn't check for dependencies.
> >
> > 2. The installed version of mono on all the different Linux
> > distributions and distribution versions is not quite the same. So if
> > you for example depend on mono 2.6 (as opposed to 2.4, current Ubuntu
> > Lucid Lynx version), you'll basically have to package mono 2.6 as
> > well. This happended to me because there's a bug in 2.4 concerning XML
> > and XmlTextReader/writer encoding.
> >
> > 3. If you have a RPM file, you can use the Debian-Tool 'alien' to
> > convert it into a .deb file automagically (careful).
> >
> >
> > Am 25.10.2010 00:02, schrieb Michael Hutchinson:
> >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Derek JW Cahusac de Caux
> >> <derek at azuregulf.com>  wrote:
> >>> Hi - I'm new to MD and C# (thoroughly enjoying both) and am now at
> >>> the stage
> >>> where I'd like to 'package and ship' simple C# desktop applications
> >>> to end
> >>> users (on both Linux and Windows).
> >>>
> >>> These tutorials from Visual Studio look fairly good:
> >>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k3bb4tfd%28v=VS.100%29.aspx
> >>>
> http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/58021-deploying-a-c%23-application-visual-studio-setup-project/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Any pointers to the equivalent guides in MD would be most appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> I really want to avoid asking end users to extract tarballs, drop
> >>> down to
> >>> Terminal and run " sudo ./configure&&  make&&  make install" if at all
> >>> possible....
> >> Unfortunately MonoDevelop doesn't have any built-in support for
> >> packaging. The best it can do is create a zip of binaries, or a
> >> tarball with build/install scripts. I know, we've wanted packaging
> >> support for a while
> >> (http://monodevelop.com/Developers/Tasks/Packaging) but it's difficult
> >> to implement fully and there hasn't been huge demand.
> >>
> >> Linux packaging depends on the distro, unfortunately - the major
> >> package formats are rpm (openSUSE, SLE*, Redhat, Centos, Fedora, etc)
> >> and deb (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.), though a few distros use other systems
> >> (Gentoo etc).
> >>
> >> I've only used RPM myself. The way it works is that you write a
> >> specfile: a description, a list of dependencies, the commands to build
> >> and install (or simply unzip and cp) the app, and a list of files to
> >> package up. You then feed it to a tool that builds and installs the
> >> package into a fake root and collects the installed files and packages
> >> them up. I think deb is fairly similar. If you're lucky, you might be
> >> able to make packages that are usable on several distros or versions,
> >> depending how similar they are.
> >>
> >> If your app is open-source, I suggest you investigate the openSUSE
> >> Build Service which, given source and spec files, can build packages
> >> for multiple distros automatically. The packages already there will
> >> provide good examples to base yours on.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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