On Mar 23, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
[...]
We could also resume building RPMS, if someone wants to spend
some time on that. The build script could probably produce both
archives and packages in the same run, from the same destroot.
RPM may be appealing to many for various reasons and I won't argue
that.
Apple has created the package format for distributing binaries and
it is
familiar to most users and does not require any additional software
be
installed.
If macports binaries were packaged in osx package format wouldn't
that
be more native and there by more attractive then rpms?
The package format is practically irrelevant for use within MacPorts
since all the necessary info should be stored in the registry.
For distributing to users who don't have MP installed, .pkg is nice
until you want to uninstall...
Are uninstall options within a pkg difficult?
Many installer distributed in dmg's provide an uninstall script.
I guess I just don't see the appeal of rpm. What do you see as the
advantages of rpm?
Would rpm be internal to the macports port command and leverage rpm
dependency checking or something?
I'm thinking of all the software I have downloaded in the past like
php, mysql, gimp, foo2zjs, foomatic-rip, gutenprint etc... that are
already distributed via dmg's.
It seems like it would be nice to have macports a popular place to
build and distribute such things.
//Brad
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