[openbeos] Re: general update tool idea
- From: Ted Leeuwesteijn <thirdrock@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:28:34 +0200
Hello Kobi Lurie you emitted about [openbeos] Re: general update tool idea
have a look at
http://www.openpackages.org/index.php
Might be worth looking into. Certenly when you try to be compatible with the
other BeOS recreations.
Grts
Ted.
>well, this is something in the middle,
>it's not cvs and it's not a binary.
>the problem is that binaries are big.
>and compilations are cycles sucking.
>for example, u want to see the latest and greatest opentracker.
>u see that one file got updated with bug fixes, but u don't want to
>download the cvs tree, or a binary someone built.
>as i said, this is something in the middle,
>u download the objects and linking is done.
>u don't need make/jamfiles. u don't need to know what is going on.
>this is a fast update, but as i said,
>u will have to keep a seperate folder with all the objects, and the size
>of all of them combined is the same size as the binary.
>I would love for this idea to be merged as a feature to one of the
>already existing work in progress update apps.
>ben wrote:
>> i'd think that any one who is in the dev team or realy curious will know
>> how to use cvs but i bin update tool is more for anyone who realy doesnt
>> want to deal with compilation ect. this would be a wonderful tool for
>> newbes.
>> ben~
>>
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