Stakes and Opportunities around the New EasyPBI Version 2



Available since January 11, 2013, this new version (EasyPBI Version 2 ),is presented as a complete re-write of the original program code. For those who unfamiliar, EasyPBI is a graphical application to build more or less easily a PBI module from a FreeBSD port.
The major new features include:  you can henceforth package a local directory into a PBI; Build
32-bit PBI’s on 64-bit systems as additional build option; you can Complete support for editing installation/wrapper scripts; Complete support for XDG desktop/menu entries with easy MIME type integration (full creation/editing of entries with a number of new options available for entries) and switch to using the OptionsNG format for setting port build options by default.

As the UI Improvements, we have: new “Settings” dialog for setting/changing default directory paths, PBI build settings, and any external utilities ; New “Ports” dialog for downloading/updating the FreeBSD ports tree ; New “About” dialog for quickly viewing information about EasyPBI . Etc. 


However there are some Important Warnings and Instructions to observe :
  • Make sure you are using the latest version of the pbi-manager tools before using the new “local sources” PBI build options (the default PC-BSD 9.1 tools do not have the proper version).
  • One of the install scripts (pre-pbicreate.sh) will also not be used unless you have the latest version of the pbi-manager tools.
  • Saved settings from earlier versions are not converted into the new format, you will need to reset all of your settings manually from the new “EasyPBI  Settings” menu option.
  • Desktop/Menu entries and external-links are no longer automatically generated on module creation. These can now be easily added from the module editor afterwards.
  • Since it has been added to SVN so recently, most of the translations have not been done yet.
To get EasyPBI 2.0, you will need to have the Development-Qt system
package installed, as well as either the Subversion PBI or the Development-VCS system package.

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