From: Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net>
To: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>, 9front@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: package manager? seriously?
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:24:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y63qk2r6.fsf@hydra.violetti.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41D312FB-F15E-4DC5-8B8F-2EDEA44460A2@fastmail.fm>
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 02:16:43 +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Ugh. I'm tired, I've been writing and doing stuff far too much this
> past week, and then people start bringing up "what's going to be
> 9front's package manager" as if it were some kind of fait accompli,
> and instantly talking about "how are we going to have the package
> manager deal with config files?"
We already have a package manager by the name of contrib/install.
Do we want mercurial and hg as part of the base system?
If not we need a solution for installing (preferrably binary) versions
of them. Also a way of upgrading would be nice (re 9fans new hg version
thread).
Do you think the current contrib way is any saner?
We *can* omit dependencies and config files totally from package
management.
All I am thinking of is:
+ copy files quickly over network
+ install avoiding clobbering local files
+ provide remove/upgrade
+ don't start with config file madness
+ don't do complex dependencies
ps. This started from #cat-v when I noted that some of my simple installer
code does work on Plan 9.
- Taru Karttunen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-04 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-04 1:16 Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-04 5:24 ` Taru Karttunen [this message]
2011-04-04 6:04 ` Stanley Lieber
2011-04-04 11:37 ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-08 13:16 ` cinap_lenrek
2011-04-08 13:22 ` Jacob Todd
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