Hi,
--- Maarten Bosma maarten.paul@bosma.de wrote:
As you might remember firk85 and me have started coding a package manager for ReactOS. More information and a download linkcan be found on the wiki on http://wiki.reactos.com/PackageManager .
Since it is now so far that it is at least a bit useful, I'd like to ask what you think of adding it to the svn-tree ?
MSI already does everything you want to do. Add support for loading MSI packages by developing your application on Windows and then it should work in ReactOS as we share msi.dll and msiexec with wine. Vendors can already use Wix to package thier applications. For bonus points make it tie in nicely with NSIS.
Thanks Steven
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Steven Edwards wrote:
MSI already does everything you want to do. Add support for loading MSI packages.
If I understood you correctly you said that there is no need for developing a compleatly new system, a Packagemanager only had to provide a interface for the msi files.
First of all, I have to say that I don't know much about that msi stuff. So my question is how would the msi file and the program communicte ? The point with a packagemanager is that you choose to install lots of packages and leave your PC alone. So the package manager had to send the dessions of the user to the msi file and then the msi file had to do it's operations senlitly. And send reports to the package manager from time to time. And if something went wrong, it has to send a compleate error report.
So how would that work ?
Maarten Bosma
As far as I know, it is possible to do unattended setups of MSI files (used I think in corporate environments to do mass rollouts) where you pre-define values of all the stuff the MSI file needs. I could be wrong though.
I like the Idea of a ROS-Package Manager.
I can think of an infrasturcture where one could update a list and gather packageinformation from all over the internet and install random apps hosted by theirs creators or sf.net
Steven Edwards wrote:
Hi,
--- Maarten Bosma maarten.paul@bosma.de wrote:
As you might remember firk85 and me have started coding a package manager for ReactOS. More information and a download linkcan be found on the wiki on http://wiki.reactos.com/PackageManager .
Since it is now so far that it is at least a bit useful, I'd like to ask what you think of adding it to the svn-tree ?
MSI already does everything you want to do. Add support for loading MSI packages by developing your application on Windows and then it should work in ReactOS as we share msi.dll and msiexec with wine. Vendors can already use Wix to package thier applications. For bonus points make it tie in nicely with NSIS.
Thanks Steven
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