[haiku] Re: The state of Haiku
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 18:37:46 +0100
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 06:20:44PM +0100, Mark Hellegers wrote:
I will look into how to setup a repository (already found the article
on the haiku website), but the point remains that Bebits and Haikuware
were very visible and easily found whereas adding a new repository is
not that easy for a normal user. There is not even a way to add a new
repository from the Haikudepot application at the moment. You have to
use the command line for that.
This is something we need to solve. Patches welcome!
I would also much prefer to use packages to zip files, but there is a
higher barrier to providing applications at the moment than there used
to be.
It puts the difficulty on the right side of the barrier. The devlopper
worries about his dependencies and metadata once, and the package can
then easily be installed by many users.
My experience with the old "just zip the binaries" approach was that I
had to manually track dependencies, try to find the right version of the
libs, etc. This process had to be repeated for each user, each time they
wanted to install the app (and I had the problem also for apps I had
"packaged" myself).
I will have a look at it. Thanks.
I do wonder how it could break my install, though. I can understand if
it breaks the install of an application or a library, but Haiku itself
should continue to run, right?
For example, the ffmpeg package provided there is known to have
problems, and will prevent you to play any media files through the Media
Kit if you install it. There may be simialr problems in other places.
--
Adrien.
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