RE:bornagain packaging: how to split binaries
Hello Mika,
sorry for the delay....
> The GUI is not written in python, so the name of the GUI package would
> not have python in its name.
ok,in that case you put the gui in the bornagain binary package:)
> It is not huge, but still sizeable, all in all it is about 5 megabytes
> compiled and stripped. I mostly want to split bornagain into multiple
> packages because I for example would like to install bornagain on a
> server where I only need the python bindings and avoiding a dependency
> on an Xserver and qt would be nice.
do you expose the gui part from the python binding ?
> Nope, the GUI is written in C++ almost entirely and the python part is
> just a thin layer in python on top of the C++ libraries. I think I can't
> statically link because the libraries are used by the python bindings
> as well as the GUI.
in that case the best is to provide a libbornagainX package with its -dev package.
Cheers
Fred
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