From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: apt based package dist for guile? Date: 05 Aug 2003 21:48:59 +0100 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ispbsudg.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> References: <87he51mx3y.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87y8y9yfp2.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> <20030805134523.GB1785@linger.twisted-muse.org> <20030805201840.GA10216@www> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1060116929 5664 80.91.224.253 (5 Aug 2003 20:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 05 22:55:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19k8qR-0004zA-00 for ; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:55:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19k8ll-00015U-8Q for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:50:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19k8lJ-000159-TL for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19k8kl-0000xa-TF for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.34.135.17] (helo=tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19k8kl-0000xW-GK for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:49:55 -0400 Original-Received: from host217-34-135-22.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.34.135.22] helo=roo) by tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19k8kg-0000Cy-00; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 21:49:50 +0100 Original-To: rm@fabula.de In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 30 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:2157 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:2157 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > rm@fabula.de wrote: > > The one tempting thing about CPAN (and apt, here's where they meet) > > is the simple, unified build/install process -- either 'apt-get install foo' > > or CPAN's 'download / perl Makefile.PL / make / make install' process. > > Perl's MakeMaker means that the build system for a Perl module is the > same as that of other Perl modules, but it's gratuitously different > from that of all other packages. There's no reason that a package's > build system should be based on the fact that it happens to be an > extension of a particular scripting language. It's better to stick > with an existing build system that people already know (e.g., > autoconf, or whatever you would normally use for anything else). It > makes sense to put together some rules (m4 macros for autoconf, or > whatever) that can be reused for all modules for a particular > scripting language, but there's no reason to stick the installing user > with a different interface. Are you saying people don't understand apt/rpm/etc...? The thing that I was advocating about APT was the command line access to a directory of "packages". A common directory for tarballs would be a first step forward because we could write some nice tools to front end it. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user