[Exist-development] update on repository work

[James F. <jam...@ex...>]

A few announcements related to repository work I have been coding up
over the past few weeks.

* you can now create both library and application packages, I have
added some docs to this but they are brief ... best t  emulate the
myapp-0.1.xar for a application package example and functx-1.0.xar for
library package example

* application packages are full blown applications which when
installed (via repo admin) you are given the option to 'deploy' which
copies the artifacts to the database itself

* added repo.xml as a eXist standalone metadata format for containing
more information, like what type of package, author, license, etc

* Now every eXist instance has its own Public repository from which
you can use to distribute packages to other eXist instances

I am planning to hold a few online tutorials for all this stuff, but a
little unsure of what format e.g. maybe I will do a live video
streaming event. Will have a think, in the meantime I am willing to
give people help if they want to get started using package repository
stuff.

thx, J