[Kolab-devel] yet another way to build kolab

[Stuart Bingë]

On Tuesday 25 May 2004 22:58, Richard Bos wrote:
> > >However, I just found out that kolab just obtained devtool which already
> > >improves the the build situation already.  I assume the latter as it
> > > would otherwise not be accepted :)
> >
> > I am not sure if I understood it all completely.
> > devtool makes configurations for OpenPKG. Is that right?
>
> I don't know, what it can or not.  It would be nice if someone could shed
> some light on it.

There are two tools that OpenPKG have made available to the Kolab project - 
obmtool and devtool. Obmtool handles the management of OpenPKG 
"distributions", such as Kolab, whereas devtool is used for release 
management of individual packages, such as the kolab or perl-kolab packages.

Devtool is basically an alternative for the make program, however it is geared 
more towards building releases rather than building source code, i.e. 
packaging a set of files to be distributed in a release tarball, managing 
version information for a project, etc.

Devtool is in the Kolab source tree, however we are not currently using it - 
this may come online sometime in the future, but currently we're too busy to 
set it up properly. We are however using obmtool, as is evident on the ZfOS 
site.

Hope this clears up the issue for you.

Regards,

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