Re: Add OpenDylan to various package managers

Hello!

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm glad that the community provides standalone binary installers<http://opendylan.org/download/>of OpenDylan. That makes it much,
> *much* easier to start programming in Dylan.
>

Agreed!

We do need to do a new release though ...


> But I'm wondering if we could also get OpenDylan into official package
> management systems. By integrating with package systems, users don't have
> to manually download and run installers, but query their package manager to
> go out and find Dylan, and install it. Package managers also make sysadmin
> work easier (e.g. spinning up AWS instances with OpenDylan preinstalled).
>
> Ubuntu: Would be nice if Ubuntu Package Search<http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=dylan&searchon=names>had a .DEB, so that Ubuntu users could install OpenDylan with sudo
> apt-get install opendylan. Does anyone know of a PPA for OpenDylan?
>
> Windows: Would be nice if we wrapped our MSI in a Chocolatey<http://chocolatey.org/>script, so that Windows users could install OpenDylan with chocolatey
> install opendylan.
>
> Mac OS X: Would be nice if this Homebrew formula<https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/20520> were
> finished, so that Mac users could install OpenDylan with brew install
> opendylan.
>
> Eh?
>

Any chance you can help with at least one of these?  The work on DeftIDEA
in IntelliJ is keeping me fairly busy...

Also, adding some quickcheck-like functionality to testworks might be an
interesting discussion to have!

 - Bruce

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