Re: Selecting a mix of source and binary implementations

On 3 May 2017 at 22:33, Tim Diels <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> How do you 0launch an interface which requires a mix of source and binary
> implementations to be selected? Plain `0launch` only uses binaries, `0launch
> --source` only uses source implementations. Consider a mixed_interface.xml
> with an implementation which requires both interface1 and interface2. The
> former only has binary implementations, the latter only has source
> implementations. How do I 0launch mixed_interface.xml such that a source
> implementation of interface2 is compiled and its resulting binary
> implementation is selected along with a binary implementation from
> interface1.
>
> This is useful for PyPI to 0install feed conversion. Without this, hosting
> of about 0.5 to 1TB of binary implementations would need to be found for it
> to work.

Currently, you can't. "0install select --may-compile" will select both
source and binary implementations, but you then have to compile the
source ones yourself (with 0compile). The plan was to extend "0install
run" to do that. Tim made a PR a while back, but it needs updating:
https://github.com/0install/0install/pull/29


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