Re: Warp: RSS Package Manager

Like uhm, HOW do I include it into the project?

2008/5/31 Neil Munro <[email protected]>:

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> 2008/5/31 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:
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>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Neil Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 2008/5/30 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:
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>> >> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Neil Munro <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>> >> > 2008/5/28 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:
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>> >> 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 ).
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>> > 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?
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>> Yes, you need binreloc. As long as you rely on getting external files
>> from the hard drive you'll need binreloc.
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>> I did actually write a C# version of binreloc a year ago or so, It's
>> available here:
>> http://isak.livejournal.com/11225.html
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>> Just grab the BinReloc.cs and include it in your project.
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>> The blog post contains a short example on how to use it.
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> Ok, I shall try this then :)
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> I imagine I'm going to get stuck further down the line though, so expect
> more questions.
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>> >> 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.
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>> In C, you typically solve this using some abstraction layer, then
>> using #ifdef and/or separate source files depending on platform your
>> compiling on.
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>> So you'd perhaps have:
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>> bool change_permission(string file, string permission)
>> {
>> #ifdef UNIX
>>   chmod(file, permission)
>> #else if WINDOWS
>>   ChangePermission(file, permission);
>> #endif
>> }
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> The code is used was this:
> if ( Environment.OSVersion.ToString( ).ToLower( ).Contains( "unix" ) )
> {
>      string sArgs = "+x " + sFileName;
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>      Process pSetPermissions = new Process( );
>      pSetPermissions.StartInfo.FileName = "chmod";
>      pSetPermissions.StartInfo.Arguments = sArgs;
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>      pSetPermissions.Start( );
>      pSetPermissions.WaitForExit( );
> }
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> And I don't quite know how often yet it could be called.
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>> This can be done similarily in C# too, but then you'd need to compile
>> once for each platform. Don't know if that's ok with you.
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>> It all depends on how frequently you need to do this kind of stuff in
>> your code. If it was just one or a few places, I'd probably just do
>> like you did and call an external program:
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>> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("chmod", myFile + " " + myPermission);
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>> If it was a lot of things and used at many places in the code, I'd
>> write an abstraction layer that took care of the platform specific
>> details
>>
>> -Isak
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