Re: Add OpenDylan to various package managers

Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Nov 2013 00:10:07 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.dylan.gwydion.devel
Message-ID <CAHXt_SVjtsAjm1ty+wmWh_OhZFCupnCG43BuPmaT_8hg=Fod+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Feel free to use a QuickCheck port as reference code.

http://www.yellosoft.us/quickcheck
On Oct 31, 2013 10:41 PM, "Bruce Mitchener" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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