RE: [Tclish-devel] Re: Installer applications

[Andreas K. <and...@Ac...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tcl...@li...
> [mailto:tcl...@li...]On Behalf Of Steve
> Cassidy
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 5:44 AM
> To: tcl...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Tclish-devel] Re: Installer applications
>
>
> On Thursday 19 July 2001 18:05, Peter Farmer wrote:
> > Steve Cassidy wrote:
> > > My current feeling is that the following applications should come into
> > > being:
> > >
> > >  A tcl package installer. Able to download and install tcl extensions
> > > consisting of either pure tcl code or tcl and shared libraries. This
> > > might one day be included in the core distribution.
> >
> > Yup. immediately useful for most TCL projects. No reason it have A GUI
> > version as well.
>
> Jeff Hobbs has just indicated that Active State is on this trail.
>  I'm not
> sure what the scale of their system will be (I note that Andeas is a
> subscriber to this list though...).  I don't think that this
> should stop us
> talking about a solution since I think the package description
> format used
> here should be the same as that for other installer components.

I know so far that the package description format used here is XML
based. The base DTD is 'OSD' (see http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD.html)
with some extensions to it. To answer questions beyond this I will
have to read up on our documents and whitepapers about PPM.

> > cant think of a better way - except maybe "IXML" - eXtensible Installer
> > Language ;-) . Steve Ball may have some
> > enthusiasm for designing such a beast 8-).
>
> While I'm certainly keen to sell XML, I don't know if it's
> appropriate here
> just because of the baggage needed to handle it in the installer
> (although
> the tcl only parser in tclxml is impressively small).

I don't see that much of a problem here if TclXML is enclosed in a
"Batteries Included" distribution which can then serve as the base
for the installer.

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	Andreas Kupries <and...@Ac...>
	Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com