Re: Add OpenDylan to various package managers
Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Nov 2013 00:10:07 -0400
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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 > > > _______________________________________________ > hackers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers > > _______________________________________________ hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers