On 6/12/2011 16:20, Cian Duffy wrote:
On 12 June 2011 21:41, Joseph Groover <looncraz@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:looncraz@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:Why isn't the source for installoptionalpaclage in the repot? It is in trunk/data/bin. Because its a shell script?? http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/data/bin/installoptionalpackage Cian
Yes, I suppose that explains it perfectly, LOL!! I was going to check, but then I forgot!Oh well, been working on the package manager internals a bit today, I may make a functional demo in the coming days as a user-downloadable application to simplify the installation of those packages. If enough enthusiasm exists for the app I'll take the effort to separate it it out from LoonCAFE and make a full-fledged package manager front-end.
The client-side app is the easy part, IMHO, the hard part is the collaboration involved in the details.
--The loon