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hongquan / CoBang

A QR code scanner desktop app for Linux

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Issues in building and packaging #26

Closed hongquan closed 3 years ago

hongquan commented 3 years ago

Currently, there are two issues that will make building and packaging for other distros fail:

I cannot make meson detect and building translation files (*.po). So build script calling meson will not work.
The setup.py doesn't install dependencies (like Babel). It is because recent breaking change of pip make it fail if being called from Debian packaging tool.

So, the current solution is:

Use setup.py script.
Let your build script install dependencies before running setup.py.

hongquan commented 3 years ago

I got rid of setup.py in favor of Meson.