John J Lee wrote: > It allows you to think about "uninstallation" as "delete the app == > delete the file"
But 0install doesn't do that, as far as I can tell -- it still keeps the data in some mysterious form and location known only to itself, and requires you to use special tools to install/remove apps. > with ROX, it seems very similar to how I imagine Mac OS > applications look Yes, ROX is very MacOSX-like, but I don't think it has anything to do with 0install. > But it also (plausibly) claims to allow sharing of the data that > comprises an application and its dependencies between users who don't > trust each other If ROX apps included a checksum, and the system verified it before running the app, that would give you the same thing trust-wise, I think. Dependency management is the part I agree is lacking in a MacOSX-like approach. Some tool for helping with that would be good to have. But I don't think it's necessary to make the components whose dependencies are being managed into anything complicated or mysterious in order to get that. They should just be files or directories that I can put into place myself, and look at to find out what I have. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
