[haiku] Re: Naming of current optional packages

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 23:18, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  As for finding the current version
> of each of the OptionalPackages, you could get that by looking through
> OptionalPackages:
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/export/34066/haiku/trunk/build/jam/OptionalPackages
>
> A script could search that file and parse out the name of the package
> and it's current link and install to location and then use wget to
> download and install it.  Since python isn't included by default in
> the nightlies, the script would probably need to be a bash script.
> Perhaps a bash bootstrap that first downloads and installs python and
> then gets a python script to handle the rest.

See http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4680
I started one, but got held up on figuring out the best way for
handling the logic in the jamfiles --- eg, writing a parser/api in sh,
writing alternative JamRules & friends to override the current
jam-base action rules.

--mmadia

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