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

Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2007-07-11, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Same thing then... you're using a tool to create the HTML/XML for you.

And which tool would let me edit a package description in a decent format?

The problem with XML is that it's totally illegible, and there aren't decent
tools for it... and if there were, it could just as well be binary and thus
_much_ more efficient.

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

I didn't find it when I looked into the file... see how illegible XML is?

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

Well, at least it has a package (although not capability) based 
dependency system unlike autopackage. (Actually, that definition
does include a partial description of how the depended-upon library
provides a wanted capability: with 'insert="usr/lib" name="LD_LIBRARY_PATH"'.
It's just in the wrong place: it should be in the libsvn1 description,
with Subversion depending only on the capability.)



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Tuomo
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