Thanks! Finding out why it didnt work well makes it interesting and helps design a better one.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Graham Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Substantially the same way that the Mac OS X .pkg system works, although > that’s been refined over time. > > So there’s a bundle called a pkg, which contains two useful elements: a > zipped PAX archive containing the payload and a “bill of materials” which > describes the locations, permissions and sizes of the payload files and > folders. Installing involves dropping the payload into place and the BOM > into a known location: I can’t remember where that is now and will probably > never need to know again :). There’s no reference counting or versioning of > installed files, which makes uninstallation, upgrades and downgrades > difficult and makes it a bad model to base another package system on. > > More here: http://www.bangmoney.org/nextstep/packages_1.html > > Graham. > > On 28 Feb 2014, at 09:45, Rogelio Serrano <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi > > How did the nextstep package system work? > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
