Re: First Autopackage 1.3 patch

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Mike Hearn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, but now you need people to separately fetch the runtime and set it up
> themselves. How will they do that?

I don't know If I understood you correctly, but isn't it just
package remove autopackage autopackage-gtk autopackage-qt
and then executing a package file?

> Also, how do you manage evolution of the platform? For instance, what if I
> try and run a 1.5 autopackage on a system with the 1.0 runtime installed.

The 1.5 package should suggest to update the support code to version
1.5, shouldn't it?

> Doing something sensible requires you to present backwards compatible
> metadata ..... forever.

Again I'm not quite sure that I understood you correctly. Do you mean,
that there should be no need to update the installed support code?

> They would have had to do that anyway to take advantage of the new features.

Not if they want to continue providing only x86 packages.

> I agree that template bugs are bad, but surely that's an argument for
> reducing the size of the templates rather than eliminating them entirely.

I have only removed the backend.template and the installer.template
from the package. stub.template and downloader.template are still
being used.

Another point is, that installer.template is exactly the same in every
package (AFAIK). So by removing it also saves some space in each
package file.

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