luau and 0export

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:

> What are Autopackage's plans for luau?


I thought of removing luau(-downloader) completely, but haven't suggested
that untill now and also don't know what to replace it with. Maybe
Zeroinstall? I don't know completely what luau actually does though.


> The last post to the mailing
> list I could find (hard to check as it's full of spam) was this 2006
> post checking whether the project was still active:
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1167444382.7676.282444165%40webmail.messagingengine.com&forum_name=luau-devel
>
> Has there been any further development?


AFAIK the project is dead. Could be possible that there's a living fork
though.


> BTW (sorry to hijack the thread ;-), I've been working on getting
> support for Autopackage-style self-installing packages added to Zero
> Install:
>
>  http://0install.net/0export.html
>
> Not as pretty as Autopackage yet, but it does support multi-platform
> binaries (though in a different way). e.g. the ROX-All package
> contains 32 and 64 bit versions of the ROX applications:
>
>  http://roscidus.com/desktop/ROX-All
>
> Programs installed this way still check for updates to themselves.
> Menu integration currently requires the distribution zeroinstall
> package to be installed, but perhaps the archive can install that
> itself too in the future.
>
> You can even make an Autopackage-style self-installing package from a
> Zero Install feed of an Autopackage! e.g.
>
> Create the package:
>
> $ 0export stellarium-setup.sh
> http://0install.net/2006/autopackage/Stellarium.xml
>
> Install and run:
>
> $ ./stellarium-setup.sh


Not bad, but - no offence - why didn't you use Autopackage? Isn't
colaberation the only thing that brings us forward?

As we all have the same goal - easy linux software installation/execution -
what do you think about getting a little bit more together? Maybe even with
the guys from klik. For example we all need a tool like apgcc, don't we? And
it also would be great to let makepackage automatically create a zeroinstall
feed or let autopackage install packages as klik files or other stuff.

I'm sorry if all of this has already been discussed or is complete nonsense,
because I'm rather new and also don't know much about zeroinstall or klik.