[haiku-development] Re: PackageManager
- From: Joseph Groover <looncraz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:49:42 -0500
On 7/1/2011 15:19, scottmc wrote:
> I'm still steadily working on my PackageManager and am currently
> focusing on a simple PackageBuilder app so I can fully test (&demo) my
> ideas.
>
Have you been following what Ingo is working on?
http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagement/TODO
http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagement/BuildingPackages
http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagement/FileFormat
-scottmc
Yes! Should have mentioned that, I suppose ;-)
I'm keen on GUIs (or at least I think so ;-) ) and am building a
fully-featured PackageManager UI which "floats" over any given
implementation. It is already fairly complete on the back-end ( and was
actually usable at one point - without any networking code, though ).
The PackageBuilder program will be designed to seek out CategoryIDs and
to register unique PackageIDs in addition to GUI-based package building
( eventually! ).
I have a very different scheme for dependency handling, however - or at
least it would seem so ( I haven't looked at the package solver idea ).
I just wanted to know what was preferred server-side so I could plan
XML-handling early-on before I do any live testing ( no installs (at
first), just viewing categories, packages, proper GUI behavior, etc... ).
I also have the issue with server-layout. PackageInfo needs to be
accessible without downloading the package ;-)
My app also has local caching, depot mirroring (local & remote), load
balancing, and much more built in already, so I'm a few steps ahead of
the game ( though I'm writing a new GUI outside of LoonCAFE - though I
kept Sigslot [ Signals & "Slots" ].
Anyway, my question, essentially, is would it be desirable to have the
category & package descriptors as XML on the server-side? I see no
plans on this anywhere...
Or maybe the plan is download the head of the package, rather than a
separate listing.
--The loon
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