Re: Warp: RSS Package Manager

2008/5/30 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:

> 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 ).



Looking at the quick start guide and I get to the binreloc stage is there a
C# mode for binreloc? I don't have any hard coded paths at the moment,
everything is all contained in a relative directory so I do even need to use
binreloc at this point?


>
>
> >>
> >> 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.


Is that practice frowned upon? I'm learning to program all by myself without
any one really showing me better ways of doing things and best practice
methods and I would prefer to get things efficient and right if I can. So if
my work around is a bit nasty and hacky I'll move back to bitwise
operations. Can probably fix the dependency by checking if the system is a
unix one only then use Mono.Native.Unix.UnixFileProcess that works around
the dependency issue on windows.

>
>
> -Isak
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