Re: [ros-dev] Package Manager

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

--- Jonathan Wilson [e-mail] wrote:
> Why not?
> Its perfectly possible to include a CPL program on the same CD or zip file 
> as a GPL program as long as they dont directly mix code (IANAL but this is 
> what I understand). Linux distributions mix and match code of all different 
> licences and get away with it.

Because we have developed this project like Debian or FreeBSD though we have a "Unspoken Social
Contract" GPL incompatible software will not be mixed in the same package or on the same medium as
GPL compatible software. I am perfectly happy to have WiX or any other OSS package shipped with
ReactOS on a Non-Free CD. It does not mean that I view the CPL as Non-Free, far from it, but in
the GPLs current incarnation it has been deamed GPL-incompatible. Maybe the GPL v3 will address
these issues and we can even ship WiX in the same package/cd as ReactOS but I still would rather
not have ReactOS become dependant on code developed by Microsoft as it may make them rethink the
idea of Freeing other packages in the future.

I would rather link, provide downloads to (apart from the main ReactOS package), and ship it on a
"extras" CD.

Thanks
Steven

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[Jakob Eriksson]

Steven Edwards wrote:

[re WiX]
> I would rather link, provide downloads to (apart from the main ReactOS package), and ship it on a
> "extras" CD.

or a "devel" CD with other dev. tools: mingw, devcpp and friends.

regards,
jakob

[Maarten Bosma]

I missed to introduce a concept of the package manager here. Packages 
are not a Archive file with an instruction for installing like apt 
packages. The more an instruction to download the program, that might be 
  running the setup with a special parameter or downloading an arrive 
file with the binaries. That is a little bit of BSD ports or Gentoo Emerge.

This is why I think MSI files aren't the right think to replace the 
basic based scripts, that are used at the moment. It simply not what 
they have been made for. But if the vendor of the application provides a 
msi file of cause it can be used; with a "msi"-script-command.

Maarten Bosma