Re: ZeroInstall & Package systems [Was: Re: Dock padding_pixels suggestion]

Thomas Leonard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:47:45 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:

> On 2007-07-10, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On the other hand, you've already written a download page in HTML, 
> 
> Actually, [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/).

Same thing then... you're using a tool to create the HTML/XML for you.
Generate it however you want. If the final format isn't XML or similar
then normal browsers won't render it (which isn't a serious problem, but
it looks nicer formatted).

>> $ 0alias svn http://0install.net/2007/3rd-party/Subversion.xml
>>
>> That will also download up to 11 other libraries, 
> 
> Umm.. the file lists no dependencies. How does the system really work,
> I meant?

In that file (use View Source to see the XML if you're using a browser),
there is this bit:

 <requires interface="http://0install.net/2007/3rd-party/libsvn1.xml">
   <environment insert="usr/lib" name="LD_LIBRARY_PATH"/>
 </requires>

That in turn depends on other things...

In fact, the subversion packages mirror the structure of the Debian
packages because that's where I copied the binaries from (someone was
explaining to me how it was impossible to backport svn 1.4 to Debian/sarge
because of all the dependencies...)


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