Re: Cooperation with Npackd

here are the default Npackd repositories: https://npackd.appspot.com/rep

--Tim

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Bastian Eicher <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> Tim Lebedkov, the developer of Npackd (http://npackd.appspot.com/), a
> package manager for Windows, reached out to me proposing a cooperation with
> Zero Install.
>
> We discussed the possibility of creating a webservice for transparently
> converting between the package formats of Npackd and Zero Install, similar
> to pom2feed (https://github.com/0install/pom2feed).
>
> Some issues that need to be addressed for this to work:
>
>  * Npackd supports installer EXEs while Zero Install only suports archives
> as the package format.
>
>  * Zero Install calculates hash values over extracted archives (allowing
> deduplication and verification after installation). Npackd calculates hash
> values of the archive files themselves.
>
>  * The desktop integration extensions of the Zero Install feed format
> represent file type associations as individual XML tags. Npackd handles
> these with post-install scripts.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Regards
> Bastian
>
>
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