Re: [Zero-install-devel] Some Zeroconf Issues

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:54:50PM +0100, Joachim Kupke wrote:
> Damien Uern:
> 
> > days, but there's some things that I haven't found answers for in the
> > FAQ or in the mailing list archive.
> 
> Yes, a wiki might be a good tool in order to capture some points that
> are hard to find in the list archives. The thread about zero install
> 0.1.17, in particular, is about a whole lot of things aside from zero
> install 0.1.17. ;-)

There's a ZeroInstall page on the ROX wiki:

	http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ZeroInstall

You can add a discussion link from that if you want (I know it's on the
ROX site, but I can't be bothered to set up another wiki at the moment...
noone will mind).

> (although I will presumably implement Thomas' suggestion to use the
> platform name "as left as possible" in the path name and thus break
> compatibility in the future [and thus not recommend to use it right
> now]), without duplication.

Actually, I'm beginning to think that was a bad idea. If we make things
self-compiling in the case where no binary can be found then the latest
version is always available, and it would be better to use that.

I should put up a generic AppRun that does it all for you. Then, AppRuns
can start with this, for example:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -d /uri/0install/zero-install.sourceforge.net ]; then
  exec /bin/0run "zero-install.sourceforge.net/bin/app-run 2003-01-01" "$0" "$@"
fi
<< normal AppRun stuff for non-Zero Install users >>

This would look for $appdir/platform and, if missing, try ~/.cache/uri,
compiling there if necessary.

This probably doesn't work well with libraries, of course ;-)


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