Re: some problems and questions

Bastian,
    should I write this up as a bug?

On 11/14/2015 06:57 AM, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> 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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