Re: Add OpenDylan to various package managers
Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Nov 2013 20:22:44 +0700
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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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> hackers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers >> >> > _______________________________________________ > hackers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers > > _______________________________________________ hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers