On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 17:47, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Aug 19, Laurent wrote: > > > > After some searching, maybe EPM (www.epmhome.org) is a good > > solution. It seems to be a nice, simple, Unix multi-platform > > package manager from binaries. It was very easy (noob here) to > > create a .deb file from a Racket medium size project. It can also > > create .dmg, .rpm, and many (all?) other Unix formats + a portable > > .tar.gz one, from a /single/ configuration file. It deals with > > subpackages and dependencies. It can have a GUI with fltk. (if > > during install it says some libs are missing, get the -devel/-dev > > ones, it should work). > > I had a brief look at it, and it sounds very promising. Specifically, > the ability to turn a distribution tgz into an rpm/deb/whatever would > be nice, together with a plain shell-installer thing as we have now. > (The subpackages and dependencies are not so relevant though, they > might be more relevant in the future, but we'll need in any case to > have something in racket to download and install packages, deal with > dependencies etc.) > Probably dividing packages into core, textual, gui, docs, etc. would be nice I suppose. > However, it's not clear to me how alive this project is. Looking at > the svn log it's pretty quiet, and I'm worried about a tool that I > didn't hear about previously, and would rather use something well > known (which means lots of users that make it stable, and long > survival chances). If you have any more information about this, or > about any similar tools, I'd love to hear about it. > That worried me too a bit, but a question I asked was quickly answered on the forum. On the forum I also saw that it was apparently widely used by IBM and Oracle (IIRC). > > Even better, is if anyone gets this (or something similar) and plays > with a very simple spec file that I can try out -- and maybe > eventually switch our packaging process to use it. > The documentation is quite complete and has some examples: http://www.epmhome.org/epm-book.html
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