On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Fred Jan Kraan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-12-20 19:09, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > > On 12/18/2014 10:13 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: > >> If there is a cross-platform repository system out there that is > well-tested and built to be _more_ secure than apt (i.e., defense against > replay attacks in the original design), perhaps it could be leveraged. > >> Unfortunately I don't know anything about binary repo systems, other > than Debian's. > >> -Jonathan > >> > >> On Thursday, December 18, 2014 3:04 PM, Fred Jan Kraan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 2014-12-18 20:34, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > >>> On 12/18/2014 08:16 PM, Samuel Burt wrote: > >>>> 1. Opening a patch with [import cyclone] would automatically download > the > >>> > >>> i *strongly* oppose to anything that automatically connects to the > >>> internet and fetches or submits data. > >> > >> And the Pd-community currently does not have the resources to build > >> something that is similar or more advanced than the Debian distribution > >> system and preferably be cross platform. > > > > > > so why not use apt? > > > > i mean, we could build on top of apt to do something "more" cross > platform. > > Debian (and thus apt) already handles multiple architectures and > > "operating systems" (well: kernels), so we just need a few others archs: > > - w32-i386 > > - w32-amd64 > > - osx-i386 > > - osx-amd64 > > > > this would of course mean porting (parts of) apt to w32/osx (and i have > > no clue how much work *that* means) > > Porting apt would indeed solve the Pd-distribution problem, and maybe > for more cross-platform packages. > > For MacOSX, the Fink package is based on Debian tools > (http://www.finkproject.org/). So that leaves Windows. > > From the distant past I remember Inno Setup is free and usable > (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). As long as there is no native > apt for Windows that could do... > > Somehow, it looks a bit less abstract now :-). > > > > fgmrds > > IOhannes > > > Greetings, > > Fred Jan > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/windows-get/ https://chocolatey.org/ http://dev.tranquil.it/wiki/WAPT_-_apt-get_pour_Windows ? András
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