[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9825: package information are too restrictive
- From: "X512" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:25 -0000
#9825: package information are too restrictive
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Reporter: X512 | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/Package Management
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by X512):
Replying to [comment:3 bonefish]:
> The package file name isn't something a user usually comes in contact
with. It isn't meant for user friendly reading. Instead it encodes
important information like the package version and architecture. Package
files may also be stored on systems other than Haiku and may be
transferred via various protocols. Sticking to ASCII characters without
whitespace avoids potential character encoding and quoting/escaping
issues.
But why it should limit package name (not file name) itself? Also why
package name should be same as in file name?
> I don't know what distribution conditions you're thinking of. Generally
it might be interesting even for a commercial company to provide a
repository, so that bug fix updates can be delivered automatically to the
user. If, for some reason, they want to provide only the package file
itself, they could build one per target language with the respectively
translated meta information.
Commertical software is usually not free to download (but downloadable
software with activation exists, shareware for example). Package can be
transfered to the user only after being paid by some sequre method or even
by physical media such as CD-ROM. Mayble this is obsolete information
because I don't buy software often and prefer free software.
> As written before, we haven't really worked out how exactly we want to
handle localization. We may also provide some way to build all
translations into a package.
Anyway this should be made before package manamement became part of Haiku
release officially.
> That would require the package info file to be changed and the package
to be rebuilt whenever a translation is added or a typo is fixed in any of
them. I think generally we should keep the translations separate from the
package.
Package names should be translated for listing installed packages as I
mentioned before.
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