Re: Gnome/Linux Application Installer

[Scott Wimer <scottw dev cgibuilder com>]

Here's just a thought on the scripting language aproach.

Rather than making a special scripting language just for this,
why not make a spec, and then see if we can't get perl or python
libraries for it.  As long as you're using gnome-perl or gnome-python
the end result from either language will look the same.  We give
the developers a bit more choice that way, rather than, one more 
language they need to learn.

regards,
scottwimer

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Jason Tackaberry wrote:

> > 	And that's just the beginning!  What if things are a little more
> > complex?  What if the application needs to ask questions from the user
> > doing the install?
> 
> Which is why I think some sort of scripting language would be needed.  That
> way you can script dialogs for the user, and also make a more custom flow for
> the install.
> 
> I don't know much about the guts of rpm and deb, but I doubt they support this.
> We need to spec out a format that allows scripting, and is also smart enough
> to properly clean up old versions of the package (although RPM seems to do
> a good job of this).
> 
> Jason.
> 
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