Re: [Zero-install-devel] Questions

[Tim D. <lim...@gm...>]

On 01/22/2012 04:23 PM, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> On 21 January 2012 15:06, Tim Diels<lim...@gm...>  wrote:
>> We could change 0install so that, when 0install is ran:
>>    if $args contains --no-bootstrap:
>>      continue into program code as we do now
>>    else:
>>      exec: 0install --no-bootstrap run
>> http://0install.net/2007/interfaces/ZeroInstall.xml --no-bootstrap $args
>>
>> As long as ZeroInstall.xml is kept backwards-compatible, older versions
>> will be able to bootstrap into the newest version.
> This can work (and early versions did work like this). It can add some
> complexity, however (e.g. does running with -v debug the process of
> running the application, or the process of running the second
> 0install?).
I would bootstrap immediately and after that forget there ever was a 
first/second 0install process. So I'd debug the second 0install.

There is some complexity in the requirement that 0install dependencies 
should be in a format recognised by the currently installed 0install 
however. Though I was hoping to use this as auto-self-update, this would 
form a problem.

-- 
Kind regards

Tim Diels