Re: Warp: RSS Package Manager

2008/5/28 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Neil Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey all, I was wondering what you guys thought of this.
> >
> > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/warp
> >
> > It's my own project and while I know I have not put out a new release in
> a
> > few months I have had exams so had to revise for them, but work has
> > continued, and I have one new feature to implement before the new version
> > comes out, I would like to point out the first package format I
> implemented
> > was in fact autopackage support because my theory is when a new
> autopackage
> > comes out Warp will automatically check remove the old version and
> install
> > the new version. I figure it's easier for the user to have a program to
> > automatically update their autopackages than searching for them manually.
>
> Cool, so you mentioned it was written in c#. Did it work well to
> package mono applications with autopackage? I've been meaning to add
> better support for mono based apps in autopackage for a while and it'd
> be interesting to hear your issues.



I do not know HOW to autopackage anything, I tried to package pidgin once
and could not do it. I have very little understanding of how autopackage
actually works, if someone can help me package it I will try, if only to
help discover the potential issues packaging a mono app might show up.


>
> > Warp aim's to bridge the gap between distributions not adding new
> features
> > until a new release and users wanting new features in the interim. It's
> > written in C# and uses bash calls occasionally to work on Nix systems.
>
> Just curious, why do you need to call bash? You should have access to
> pretty much the entire POSIX api (or equivalent .NET api) from mono.


The API is very complicated and including the mono namespaces created a
dependency on them which resulted in the source not compiling under windows.
My main issue was setting permissions, it involved bitwise operations which
while I had a vague understanding of what was happening I wasn't fully aware
of what to do. It was mostly setting a script file or autopackage to be
executable that was the problem. So I created a process that called chmod.


>
>
> > It's
> > worth pointing out the code I have on my hard drive is much cleaner and
> > better than what's on sourceforge at the moment, but I do not know how to
> > use svn or cvs and can't understand the sourceforge documents on how to
> make
> > it work.
>
> Sounds like you should take a look at the svnbook.
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/


Taking a read now. Thanks.


> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/>
>
> -Isak
>
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