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From: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] new module installer and .tar.gz compression
Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 07:17:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22e10763-2188-403d-3803-8979235da50b@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <967d345c-0f11-7762-828a-966e97089099@freedom.nl>

Am 09.05.23 um 01:19 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
> On 5/8/2023 8:55 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
> 
>> But either the module scripts should re-pack tgz archives or the 
>> installer must learn to handle them.

> The script now
> 
> -- before installing uninstalls a previous installation
> -- can uninstall an installed module
> -- can list installed modules

Great!

> For the moment I disable a few badly packages zips:
> 
> metaducks, sudoku, aquamints, simpleslides
> 
> as they put files in the root and their own directories and I am not 
> adding a zip-root remover and additional checkers.

I regard it good practice to have README, LICENSE and VERSION files in 
the root. A public git repository without these is incomplete, and if we 
use the zip/tgz packaging of platforms like github or gitea (codeberg), 
we can’t exclude them.
The installer script could just ignore/delete them.

Hraban
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-09  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-08 15:20 Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2023-05-08 15:58 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2023-05-08 17:40   ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2023-05-08 18:55     ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-05-08 22:33       ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-08 23:19       ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-09  5:17         ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context [this message]
2023-05-09  6:06           ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-09  7:30         ` Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
2023-05-09  7:43           ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context

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