Re: some problems and questions

Hi Philip,

I'm the maintainer of the Windows Publishing Tools and I'd be happy to look
into the issues you've run into.

Could you give me a specific example of a field you entered > into causing a
crash?

Regarding *.txz archives: The official 0install documentation only lists TAR
archives compressed with GZip, Bz2 and LZMA as supported (see
http://0install.net/interface-spec.html#retrieval-methods). *.txz seems to
be new in the Linux version and has not been implemented on the Windows side
yet.

Regards
Bastian


-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Miess [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Freitag, 13. November 2015 00:19
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Zero-install-devel] some problems and questions

hello,
    I've been trying to create a feed for winbuilds sdl2 package, and I've
run into a number of problems.

1. The windows publishing tool crash if you past a > into a field.
2. The windows tools doesn't seem to know what a *.txz archive.

So I started looking at using the Linux publish tool.

3. Gentoo no longer has a zero install package, or most of ROX for that
matter.
4. Gentoo also doesn't have all the necessary versions of software
installable to compile it. I think it was some Ocaml package dependency that
foiled this attempt

These are not directly your area of course, but still of interest to you.
so I downloaded the binary package and installed that in my home bin
directory.

Running the install for 0publish-gui I noticed that it required zero install
1.14, which is odd running in 2.10, and that it wasn't picking up the gentoo
GPG package that is its dependency and is listed in the feed.

0launch posts a message taller than the screen when you cancel.

I created a native feed with
<package-implementation distributions="Gentoo" main="/usr/bin/gpg"
package="app-crypt/gnupg"/>
and that seemed to work not sure if its because its a native feed or if the
full package path works better.

0publish-GUI doesn't seem to allow using nested groups like on windows.
It seems to take a long time to add groups elements It doesn't list
"application/x-xz-compressed-tar" for archives but supplies that when guess
is selected.
It also complains if you save and test that there is no run element but of
course libs shouldnt have them.

Here is what I have so far let me know if its flawed, or could be better

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<interface
xmlns="http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/2004/injector/interface">
  <name>SDL2</name>
  <summary>Simple DirectMedia Layer Version 2</summary>
  <description>
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to

provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware
via

OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software,

emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of

&amp;quot;Civilization: Call To Power.&amp;quot;

SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD,
NetBSD,

OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for
AmigaOS,

Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but these
are

not officially supported.

SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to
several

other languages, including Ada, C#, D, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria, Guile,
Haskell,

Java, Lisp, Lua, ML, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Pike, Pliant, Python,
Ruby,

Smalltalk, and Tcl.</description>
  <homepage>http://www.libsdl.org</homepage>
  <category>Graphics</category>
  <icon href="http://www.libsdl.org/media/SDL_logo.png" type="image/png"/>
  <group license="OSI Approved :: zlib/libpng License">
    <package-implementation distributions="Arch" package="sdl2"/>
    <package-implementation distrobutions="Cygwin RPM" package="libSDL2"/>
    <package-implementation distributions="Debian MacPorts"
package="libsdl2"/>
    <package-implementation distributions="Gentoo"
package="media-libs/libsdl2"/>
    <package-implementation distributions="Ports" package="sdl20"/>
    <package-implementation distributions="Slack" package="SDL2"/>
    <implementation arch="Windows-x86_64" doc-dir="doc/SDL2-2.0.3"
id="sha1new=fbd4e672a96fea2fa14a4839bf39d0c406d4e54a"
released="2015-11-28" version="2.0.3-1">
      <archive extract="windows_32"
href="http://win-builds.org/1.5.0/packages/windows_32/SDL2-2.0.3-1-i686-w64-
mingw32.txz"
size="489620" type="application/x-xz-compressed-tar"/>
    </implementation>
    <implementation arch="Windows-i386" doc-dir="doc/SDL2-2.0.3"
id="sha1new=d02c29087ffb9c94fa8378510013f910c635907b"
released="11/28/2014" version="2.0.3-1">
    <archive extract="windows_64"
href="http://win-builds.org/1.5.0/packages/windows_64/SDL2-2.0.3-1-x86_64-w6
4-mingw32.txz"
size="503124" type="application/x-xz-compressed-tar"/>
  </implementation>
  </group>
</interface>

also if any of those are bugs you would like written up, let me know.
Thanks,
Phil.

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