[haiku-development] Re: Haiku package manager
- From: Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:33:04 +0100
Hi David,
On 6 February 2010 19:30, David Flemström <david.flemstrom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Some of the stuff has already been documented in the Trac wiki:
>>
>> http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageFormat
>> http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagerIdeas
>
> Thanks for the information. But how "final" is this proposed layout? It
> seems like it's extremely inspired by the Mac's "bundle" structure, which is
> good for deploying applications that are self-contained, but not for an
> universal package format to be used in an operating system for a long period
> of time.
> Let's say that I was to create a PDF containing a draft for a complete
> package management system (of course respecting the work already put into
> the system such as the bundle format etc, as mentioned on the Wiki), could I
> put it up for review on this list, even if it deviates quite a lot (but not
> completely) from what the Wiki says? Would it be accepted, probably not
> as-is, but at least as input to the package management discussion?
There have been many discussions on this before. I suggest you read
through the mailing list archive and see why certain decisions have
been made. Chances are that your points of critique were already
discussed. Of course that would not keep you from making a different
proposal, but perhaps it will make you understand which ideas you want
to have overturned :-)
N>
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