[ros-kernel] Re: Proposed books for rosdocs

[Ingo R. B. <ing...@gm...>]

Hi,

> * open source creation and editing tools for the file format. (Yes these
> can be created if someone wants to reverse engineer ORCA.)

There's nothing to reverse engineer. Orca is a very simple database frontent,
which executes SQL queries and displays the data in a list view. The problem is
not the editing tools, because they only access the MSI API. A problem might be
the file format though.

> * inter-package dependencies. A msi package can _only_ install shortcuts
> for components it is installing. Thus to make use of this every install
> will include _every_ dependent package. Compare with apt, which can
> automatically retrieve a compatible dependency and install it
> automatically.

Yes.

> However, that said, I don't believe that the reactos development should
> cover packaging systems at all - this is something best left to those
> who are distributing the OS. If the original development ends up doing
> that, then it is of course appropriate.

I think, that MSI will become THE installer on Windows systems in the future and
I don't think that many companies will make an extra package of their products
for ReactOS. In order to have a wide range of applications an MSI clone has to
be implemented, whether it will be used for core packages or not.

Regards,

Ingo


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