[haiku-development] PackageManager
- From: Joseph Groover <looncraz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:46:52 -0500
Howdy!
I've had a good chance to go over my old PackageManager and get it
compiled on Haiku and almost fully stripped from LoonCAFE. I didn't
realize when I first started working on it that I had actually designed
a really simple depot layout, so I'd like to pass on the basics to
hopefully start the fire behind the PackageManager ( mine, or whichever,
doesn't matter, as long we get one ).
As it stands we have the following:
Category
->CategoryID
Package
->PackageID
->DepencyList ( list of PackageIDs + optional version criteria )
InstalledPackage
->OverwriteLog
DepotInterface ( from app to depot )
NetworkInterface
->DepotHeader
->DepotCategoryList
->DepotPackageList
CachedDepot
InstalledPackageList
FilePolicy
PackageInstaller
PackageUninstaller
That is the application side, thus far. PackageInstaller & Uninstaller
are not fully implemented and would just be automaters for the normal
package format. I'm sure I missed something as well ;-)
The NetworkInterface has the basics setup for the following network
configuration:
Standard http or ftp server.
.bmsg = compressed, flattened BMessage
/DepotHeader.bmsg
/DepotRedirect.php - server load balancing
/depot/CategoryList.bmsg
/depot/[CategoryID]/CategoryList.bmsg
/depot/[CategoryID]/PackageList.bmsg
/depot/[CategoryID]/images/icon.png
/depot/[CategoryID]/images/background.png
/depot/[CategoryID]/[PackageID]/PackageHeader.bmsg
/depot/[CategoryID]/[PackageID]/images/icon.png
/depot/[CategoryID]/[PackageID]/images/background.png
/depot/[CategoryID]/[PackageID]/Package.pkg.gz
All ideas are welcome, I'm sure someone has put more thought into this
than I did years ago, but this seems like a pretty simple method ( when
you're a one man show, you look for simplicity :-) ).
Let me know what y'all think. Doesn't have to be .bmsg of course, could
be xml or whatever.
Oh, the background image of a category is shown centered behind the
package list in the PackageManager and the background for a package is
shown in the PackageView.
I'd share, but the UI is not buildable w/out LoonCAFE so I am stripping
the UI::Builder from LoonCAFE so I don't have to create a new UI just to
get input :-)
--The loon
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