Purebasic and Debian/Ubuntu Respositories

Brujah · Post by **Brujah** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:43 pm

The debian and ubuntu maintainers keep on telling me that they cannot include my game in their distros.
It is open source but the compiler is not.
This is really bad because I would get a lot more players when they could include it...

Damn!

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:30 pm

That's what I meant when I said that basic+ closed source+ linux is only for personal use and why I think the mac os x version is so important. On Macs binarys are no problem...

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Sun May 21, 2006 5:03 pm

Its very handy for commercial applications in linux. But yea the fact that the compiler isnt open source does discourage repositories from including pb software. Not really a big deal in my opinion. Though I have moved away from PB and just use C for almost everything these days. That might change with pb4 for linux, but i dunno. We'll see.

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:38 pm

What if you change your license from Open-Source to just plain Free? Would that change things? I am working on a Linux app that I will release free, but not the source, does this mean it will not be included in repositories?

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Mon May 22, 2006 6:10 pm

Thats right. Repositories only take open-source software that can be compiled with open source compilers.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Mon May 22, 2006 6:46 pm

That sucks! That means PureAV is history

... Dammit!

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:25 pm

Well you can still make a dpkg and an rpm package and have it downloaded from your website it will fit into the distro just as a packet from a repositry and on debian it will be removeable through synaptic too

Post by **Fred** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:50 pm

IIRC, there is the universe/proprietary repository as well (where NVidia/ATI closed precompiled drivers are).

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:56 pm

@Fred it would be interesting what system you are using, this could also hel us finding bugs when you release the first Beta of version 4 for Linux...

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:15 pm

Why not distribute your code as commented ASM?

FASM is open source.

As long as the commented ASM could be compiled with FASM alone, you're good.

Although libraries might be a problem.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:29 am

GedB wrote:Why not distribute your code as commented ASM?

FASM is open source.

As long as the commented ASM could be compiled with FASM alone, you're good.

Although libraries might be a problem.

Now that is a great idea! That should do it.

frederic · Post by **frederic** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:10 am

or pb linux can be opensource for every pb windows buyer

Brujah · Post by **Brujah** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:04 pm

I fear its not possible to distribute the fasm code. I heard that we need special libraries to actually link it. Am I right?

The problem with the universe/multiverse libraries is that its difficult to get in there... Only very popular packets get in there... I think they hate this repository

Thats exactely what I thought. The linux version should be open sourced. Also to get more users an stuff! The people will buy the windows version anyway! Fred what do you think about that? (And you will get people that improve the linux compiler in their free time!)

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:35 pm

Hmm I think the Compiler on any Platform is too portable to release it as OpenSource, but if we get the libraries OpenSource (they are written in C and are Platform specific) the ASM Idea would work. Maybe even people writting C/C++ Code would link against them because they are so easy to manage. However thats a really hard decision :roll:

Having the Code for the Internal Library stuff would also help porting to other Platforms, since the Assembler does add the excutable header one could compile to asm, then recompile the libraries for the needed Platform e.g. Solaris and Assemble and Link your asm Code to them. (I would love ruuning a tiny bit of PB Code in my Linux Kernel^^)

Brujah · Post by **Brujah** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:56 pm

Only the libraries sounds good to me. As long as I can get my game into debian/ubuntu in any way I am happy!