Re: Add OpenDylan to various package managers

Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Nov 2013 20:22:44 +0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.dylan.gwydion.devel
Message-ID <CA+esKjPRpi6c5jnxrBGzOhqDWwDHv5w18Vt5n6Shik2BJ5m9og@mail.gmail.com>
But back to the original topic, do you have the time to help with packaging
integration?

 - Bruce



On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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