[ros-dev] Package Manager

Robert Köpferl rob at koepferl.de
Fri Apr 1 23:08:42 CEST 2005


I like the Idea of a ROS-Package Manager.

I can think of an infrasturcture where one could update a list and 
gather packageinformation from all over the internet and install random 
apps hosted by theirs creators or sf.net

Steven Edwards wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> --- Maarten Bosma <maarten.paul at bosma.de> wrote:
> 
>>As you might remember firk85 and me have started coding a package 
>>manager for ReactOS. More information and a download linkcan be found on 
>>the wiki on http://wiki.reactos.com/PackageManager .
>>
>>Since it is now so far that it is at least a bit useful, I'd like to ask 
>>  what you think of adding it to the svn-tree ?
> 
> 
> MSI already does everything you want to do. Add support for loading MSI packages by developing
> your application on Windows and then it should work in ReactOS as we share msi.dll and msiexec
> with wine. Vendors can already use Wix to package thier applications. For bonus points make it tie
> in nicely with NSIS.
> 
> Thanks
> Steven
> 
> 
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