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juiceball

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Registered: 2010-05-08

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[request] Writer's Cafe 2

Greetings!

I had a hard time getting basics of making packages. I hope I can learn more of this in time.

I request a build of Writer's Café 2.25. It is a tool for novel writing and can be used for several other purposes. This app is not open source as far as I know. It needs a license to unlock the full version. Will this cause problems?

http://writerscafe.co.uk/

It is currently dependent on the libjpeg6 package (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28427)  (AUR). That may not be optimal, but I contacted the creator and he told me that the next release (2.26) would have a static libjpeg dependency so it would go fine regardless of libjpeg version. Would it perhaps be wiser to wait for the next release?

-Juiceball

Last edited by juiceball (2010-05-08 04:14:35)

dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

Posts: 732

Re: [request] Writer's Cafe 2

The license issue will not cause a problem. Those who have a license can enter it after installation.

Although the libjepg6 dependency is "not nice", it's not a problem for packaging it. When the developer updates the package, the AUR package can be updated as well.

I'm working on creating the package, so stay tuned

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dcc24

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Re: [request] Writer's Cafe 2

Well, here's the package

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37074

The tarball was packaged in a non-standard way, so I had to use some workarounds, but "it works"

Also, I didn't check for any dependencies, if you have a list of them, I can add those to the package.

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dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

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Re: [request] Writer's Cafe 2

Sorry for the double post.

Last edited by dcc24 (2010-05-08 12:28:15)

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juiceball

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Registered: 2010-05-08

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Re: [request] Writer's Cafe 2

Holy macaroni! I have tried it and everything seems to work greatly Thanks a big bunch!

I took a look at the .deb at my mint-machine. I take it that it may also be dependant on libgtk?

Package: writerscafe2
Version: 2.25-1
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libgtk2.0-0, libgtk2.0-bin
Maintainer: Julian Smart <julian@anthemion.co.uk>
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dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

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Re: [request] Writer's Cafe 2

Glad it works

I'll add gtk to dependencies. I'm also in contact with the developer, so he can include a link to Arch package in his website.

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It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. (Mark Twain)

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