[haiku-development] Re: software organization/installation
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:40:53 +0100 CET
"Michael Phipps" <michael.phipps@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> As for dependencies, BeOS mostly didn't have that
> issue. It comes up in Windows and Linux because
> the systems, as they are made, are not acceptably
> easy to write software for.
If we would have had more ported software it would
have been an issue.
> So, you may ask, if I don't like installers and I
> really don't like zip files, what do I suggest?
> Bundles like the Mac.
I like bundles too, and it might be a nice evolution
of the BeOS-style application folder, but how could
those work for ported software and tool collections
like gcc, perl, python or apache, which are not
applications?
> 1) A daemon or option in the roster daemon
> (I can't for the life of me remember the name of it!)
> that will monitor your downloads directory, find
> incoming bundles and move them into the apps folder
Scary stuff! :P
/Jonas.
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