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From: | Stefan Urbanek |
Subject: | Re: GNUstep repository (was LinuxSTEP + Integration of apps) |
Date: | Sun, 05 Jan 2003 21:29:48 +0100 |
On 2003-01-05 18:52:05 +0100 Tim Harrison <tim@linuxstep.org> wrote:
Stefan Urbanek wrote:What about having something like distributed package lists? For example there should be one http://packages.gnustep.org/Packages.plist[snip]I have no time to implement this, but if there is anyone who is interested, just write me. Or I should put something on the gnustep wiki pages.This type of system has been implemented, actually. This is VERY similar to how LSPM (LinuxSTEP Package Manager) works. Of course, considering I just got out of bed, I haven't the mental capacity to find the appropriate documentation, but if you download the LSCodeCore from the website, you can see how it works. Eric Sammer, as the author, would definitely be better able to respond to this, as well. LSPM is his magic.
Well, as far as I have read the LSPM documentation and seen some LSPM examples, it is not so similar, just the idea of package management and dependencies. I was speaking about something more than that. I was thinking not just about a package repositories and their mirrors, but model similar to those file sharing networks like gnutella, with added some kind of 'trust' for the reasons I have mentioned in my mail. Moreover I haven't seen something like ability to install LSPM packages by ordinary users into their home domain. Also I was mentioning something more than just plain package management, like making it transparent to the user sometimes (when installing some apps or required not-installed services). See http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Package%20Management. From the documentation it seems to me that LSPM is just basic traditional package management, or I have missed something. (This does not mean, that I think of LSPM as bad) Stefan
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