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Package Management, First Draft

Blog post by zooey on Sat, 2011-01-08 19:38

The following is a first draft of how package management on Haiku could look like. I'm more than sure that there are aspects missing here, but we need to start the discussion somewhere ...

Several people have already added their ideas on package management to the wiki article. Additionally, many opinions have been stated in comments to my first blog entry.

I have tried to incorporate most ideas mentioned into this draft, but due to the sheer amount of contradicting views, some sacrifices have to be made.

What is out there?

Blog post by zooey on Sat, 2011-01-08 16:48

package management, contract work

I've spent the last couple of days sifting through the existing package
management solutions in order to learn how they work and to find concepts (or even whole components) which could be used as part of Haiku's own package management solution.

Here are my impressions on the systems I've tried out or read up about so far:

Package Management for Haiku

Blog post by zooey on Mon, 2011-01-03 18:49

package management, contract work

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Starting my month of paid Haiku-work today, I was quite astonished to see the many emotional comments that have been added to the announcement. Clearly, the topic seems to be one of heavy likes and dislikes ...

Having read all those comments and most of the discussions we had earlier (on the wiki and on the mailing lists), I felt the need to start my blog with the quote given above - as, for me, that pretty much summarizes what there is to say about package management ...