Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello all, > > I'm afraid this email is coming much later in the planning process > than it should, and quite possibly we won't be able to do any of this > for SoC, and that's fine with me. But I was thinking about what we > could do that would be a "killer feature" for Guile's CPAN - something > that isn't already done by apt-get, dorodango, and every other package > manager. One answer is that having a big collection of Guile packages > *is* a killer feature, but we could have an apt repository of those if > we wanted one. > > I think the answer is that the killer feature for a large repository > of packages is having the ability to painlessly bundle a piece of > software you've been writing and all of its dependencies in one > easy-to-install thing for users. After all, it's easy when you're > developing on your own machine to download a bunch of packages and use > them to do whatever you need to do, but if you then want to send that > to other people, you've got to collect the source code (or at least > .go files) for all of them, put them in a folder, make sure the > load-path will work out, and then most importantly, do all of that > again every time a new version of one of your dependencies comes out. > I think the feature that is missing is the ability to say "take my > software and package it so that its only external dependency is > POSIX", or something similar. > Well, IIRC, it's not a feature that "dorodango does not have" ;-): dordango's package container format (referred to as a "bundle") can contain multiple packages. So it is possible to pack all your dependencies in a single ZIP, and install them in one go using that bundle. There's a bit of text about that in the dorodango manual, but here is how it works practically:
% doro show-bundle my-app.zip # to view packages in the bundle % doro install --bundle=my-app-full.zip my-app # install my-app and all dependencies > The implementation of such a thing isn't especially deep, but I bet > there will be a lot of little things that need to be done just right > for it to work. > Support for this has to be present in the conception of the package/bundle format, so indeed it's important that taking this feature into account from the beginning. > I think this could be a part of a package manager that also does the > other things Paul was listing. > Indeed! Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
