This is clearly work in progress.
Publishing for comments, even if rather incomplete.
I am realizing I am ignoring the project current package format(s).
I have the feeling the package format for 1.3 is not documented yet.
Although one could look at it inside the iso image.
I believe we have to decide which languages we "support", and for each
language, what encodings we use.
I believe we should "support" more languages for the CORE packages, than the
others.
I guess there is some "mandatory" languages, and some "recommended" languages.
Well, in an ideal world, one would ask to build binary packages from a source
package,
and would have nothing to add more.
But there is quite a lot of information, that the builder must give, not the
author of source code.
So, what a source package should looks like?
name directory (it is unclear for now, how the info is separated in different
files)
author_name
author_email
primary url
secondary url
common source files
source license
documentation license
BINARIES
for each binary:
specific source files
version
name
descr[language]_present: no need to say true, the fact that the line is
present is telling true
LANGUAGES
for each language: (all files is in the encoding chosen by the FreeDOS
project for this language)
description.txt
name.txt (how to use name binary)
help.txt (shown by the command itself)
usage.txt (short for name.txt, possibly shown by the command with -?
option)
Seems to me that if there is just one binary associated with source, then
common source files should be empty,
meaning all sources should be in the specific binary directory under BINARIES.
Reading a bit more about pgp, I realized pgp promote detach signatures as a way
to sign a file in a different file (very usefull for binary files).
They tend to sign a file named name.ext into a file named name.ext.sig
I have updated this idea in this new version.
name.hdr.sig
name.hdr
variant: dufresnep
version: 1.0
program_name
program_version
builder_name
build_date
build_hour
build_compiler_used
type_of_public_builder_source: none,git,included
optional git_url
included_src_type: none, zip, etc.
author
type_of_public_source: none, get, etc.
optional git_url
descr_present: true/false
if descr_present then descr_encoding
llvm_present: true/false
32b_present: true/false
16b_present: true/false
src_present: true/false
if src_present then src_encoding:
name.dsc
optional name.lvm (llvm code)
if name.lvm is present, then name.lvm.sig should be present
optional name.32b (32 bit code)
if name.32b is present, then name.32b.sig should be present
optional name.16b
if name.16b is present, then name.16b.sig should be present
optional name.src
if name.src is present, then name.src.sig should be present
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