Re: Add OpenDylan to various package managers

I don't have time myself, unfortunately. I just wanted to measure interest.

I haven't programmed in Dylan yet :P I was going to give it a try, but when
`brew install open-dylan` came up empty, I turned my focus on other
languages.
On Nov 1, 2013 9:22 AM, "Bruce Mitchener" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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