On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 15:51 +0200, Lukas Renggli wrote:
On 9/25/08, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
why can we have an installer script or mcm ? We should be able to have one click install too.
It will eventually become simpler.
An installer script or an mcm is not an option because that would always load one fixed configuration. Only with Universe we have the possibility to load the set of packages the developer needs, and pull in a minimal set of required dependencies automatically.
What will you do with current channels (beta,...) with seaside. Are you preparing an universe for each. The most important thing that is lacking in Universe is to assign a package version to a certain channel. This leads to something I've seen some times: A package the is called Seaside-beta-anything which is broken as soon as this beta becomes stable. For me universes capture the basic idea of an package distribution tree but it lacks essential stuff. Without that I don't know if it is worth it. Having a maintained universe only for seaside is a good thing. But you have to include KomHttpServer as well which will also be in the "official" universe. And AFAIK you can't merge universes, right? We could convert your universe into a Monticello configuration. It may sound stupid as first but I don't think it is hard to do and we wouldn't need to have universes and XML parser in the image. my 2 cents, Norbert