[haiku] Re: Naming of current optional packages
- From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:41:03 -0800
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Urias McCullough
> <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Since wget is included, perhaps a script could be used to download and
>>> install at least the BezillaBrowser; it may not be easy to know what
>>> file to get though being that the filename changes with every update
>>> (unless they are kept in sync).
>>
>> Perhaps we can just create a standard URL which redirects to the
>> latest file - wget does follow redirects IIRC.
>
> That might be a good idea.
>
> I had suggested this same script idea as Jorge on the Haiku web-site
> forums to address the question about the lack of a web browser in the
> nightly builds.
>
> Another possibility is to make the script a bit smart and just parse
> out the latest BeZilla from the optional packages list. I just
> experimented and got something that works fairly well (on Linux, it
> should work on Haiku too):
>
> OPTIONAL_PACKAGE_BASE="http://haiku-files.org/files/optional-packages/";
> LATEST_BEZILLA=`wget $OPTIONAL_PACKAGE_BASE -O - | grep BeZillaBrowser
> | sed -e 's/.*alt="\(.*\.zip\)".*/\1/' | tail -1`
> echo Would wget $OPTIONAL_PACKAGE_BASE$LATEST_BEZILLA
>
> Obviously the last part would be replaced with an actual wget and
> unzip operation. Plus some progress alerts to the user might be nice.
> An addition of a grep gcc2 in the second line will get the latest gcc2
> version. Of course this script relies on the optional packages being
> sorted by date on the optional packages page, which they seem to be.
>
> I could finish this script up and add it to Subversion and then Matt
> or whoever could add it to the nightly builds (on the Desktop I
> figure, maybe named DOUBLE CLICK THIS TO GET A WEB BROWSER.)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
>
Perhaps add to your script the symlinking so that it shows up in the
deskbar where users might expect it to.
-scottmc
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