Glom on Debian and Mac OSX

[sf-16]

Hi everybody!

I am a new member of the list and got some question about how to  
install it on Debian an Mac OSX. I am a Linux user with a little  
experience (be kind to forgive the naive questions of mine). I have to  
deal with other Mac users, accessing the same data. Glom would be an  
easy solution, since we both have previous experience with FileMaker  
Pro.

1) How do I install Glom on Debian?
Debian repository do not have Glom yet and I guess that I have to  
compile the source file manually. It would be very kind of you to  
explain the necessary procedure.

2) Is there any possibility to run Glom on Mac OSX?
I wonder if Mac OSX users might compile the source code similarly to  
the Linux users, since OSX is a Unix system. But I do not know in  
which extent OSX is compatible with GNU Linux.

3) Have you any plan to port Glom on Mac OSX?
FileMaker Pro is popular among Mac users. Probably some of them will  
be happy to have an alternative on GPL license.

Thank you in advance for your attention. I look forward to your answer.


Stig


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[Murray Cumming]

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 10:14 +0200, sf@... wrote:

> Hi everybody!
>
> I am a new member of the list and got some question about how to  
> install it on Debian an Mac OSX. I am a Linux user with a little  
> experience (be kind to forgive the naive questions of mine). I have to  
> deal with other Mac users, accessing the same data. Glom would be an  
> easy solution, since we both have previous experience with FileMaker  
> Pro.
>
> 1) How do I install Glom on Debian?
> Debian repository do not have Glom yet and I guess that I have to  
> compile the source file manually. It would be very kind of you to  
> explain the necessary procedure.

Building Glom from source is much the same as building any other
standard autotools package from source. You'll need to build several
dependencies too. There is no way to make it easy.

You really should request a package from Debian. Ubuntu has packages
that it could use.

> 2) Is there any possibility to run Glom on Mac OSX?
> I wonder if Mac OSX users might compile the source code similarly to  
> the Linux users, since OSX is a Unix system. But I do not know in  
> which extent OSX is compatible with GNU Linux.

It should be possible, but probably not that easy until gtkmm has been
built for MacOS X. It's possible now because GTK+ was recently ported to
MacOS X.

> 3) Have you any plan to port Glom on Mac OSX?
> FileMaker Pro is popular among Mac users. Probably some of them will  
> be happy to have an alternative on GPL license.

Obviously I'd like it, but it's not a priority for me personally. I'd be
happy if someone wanted to pay my company, Openismus, to do it.

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www.openismus.com

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[Murray Cumming]

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 10:47 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 10:14 +0200, sf@... wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > I am a new member of the list and got some question about how to  
> > install it on Debian an Mac OSX. I am a Linux user with a little  
> > experience (be kind to forgive the naive questions of mine). I have to  
> > deal with other Mac users, accessing the same data. Glom would be an  
> > easy solution, since we both have previous experience with FileMaker  
> > Pro.
> >
> > 1) How do I install Glom on Debian?
> > Debian repository do not have Glom yet and I guess that I have to  
> > compile the source file manually. It would be very kind of you to  
> > explain the necessary procedure.
>
> Building Glom from source is much the same as building any other
> standard autotools package from source. You'll need to build several
> dependencies too. There is no way to make it easy.
>
> You really should request a package from Debian. Ubuntu has packages
> that it could use.

In fact, I am surprised that it's not there yet. See the end of this
bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258096

> > 2) Is there any possibility to run Glom on Mac OSX?
> > I wonder if Mac OSX users might compile the source code similarly to  
> > the Linux users, since OSX is a Unix system. But I do not know in  
> > which extent OSX is compatible with GNU Linux.
>
> It should be possible, but probably not that easy until gtkmm has been
> built for MacOS X. It's possible now because GTK+ was recently ported to
> MacOS X.
>
> > 3) Have you any plan to port Glom on Mac OSX?
> > FileMaker Pro is popular among Mac users. Probably some of them will  
> > be happy to have an alternative on GPL license.
>
> Obviously I'd like it, but it's not a priority for me personally. I'd be
> happy if someone wanted to pay my company, Openismus, to do it.
>

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www.openismus.com

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[Iain Lane-6]

On 20 May 2009, at 10:48, Murray Cumming wrote:

In fact, I am surprised that it's not there yet. See the end of this
bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258096

It's held up on goocanvasmm being sponsored. It has been waiting for this for several months; I'll poke some people later. Thanks for the reminders.

Iain

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