Re: [ros-dev] Package Manager

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

--- Maarten Bosma [e-mail] 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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[Maarten Bosma]

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

[Jonathan Wilson]

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.

[Robert Köpferl]

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 [e-mail] 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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