Re: Warp: RSS Package Manager

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Neil Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2008/5/28 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:
>>
>> 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.

I assume you've read the tutorial and quick start guide on the web?
They contain most of what you need to know to get started. It's always
easier to start with a simple package (pidgin is rather complicated
IMO) to get an understanding of the basics.

In your case, you'd need to check that mono  exists and that its the
correct version. We currently don't support this, but work has at
least started ( http://trac.autopackage.org/wiki/PackagingMonoApps ).

>>
>> 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.

Ok, I understand.

-Isak

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