Re: some problems and questions

On 14 November 2015 at 10:46, Bastian Eicher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Oops. Added to the spec!

> 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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