Re: Cooperation with Npackd

On 6 April 2016 at 20:21, Tim Lebedkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

There seems to be some kind of automated testing process there. Maybe
digests/zips could be produced automatically as part of that process?



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