Hello
I'm pleased to announce the release of Reaction: an aptitude like application written specifically for ReactOS, developed in python. The project homepage is http://code.google.com/p/reaction/
The project have two goals: to provide a repository of free software applications that are known to work decently, i.e doesn't crash, with the latest release of ReactOS; And to provide an automated way to install a set of applications that make a desktop system, eg. Web browser, email client, media player, etc. on ReactOS, something like the GNU/Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva and others.
Software freedom is really important to me, that's why Reaction is completely free software and the application repository will only have free software applications.
There is an installer available at http://reaction.googlecode.com/files/reaction.exe If you have some free time please check it out, and report any bugs you find to http://code.google.com/p/reaction/issues/list
Please remember this is the first release of reaction and it will have bugs for sure, so please be patient.
I'll write some documentation this weekend, but if you are familiar with aptitude, I'm pretty sure there will be no problem figuring reaction out.
I hope you find it useful.
Regards. David Zaragoza
ps. Try 'reaction install reactos-desktop' for a bundle of nice desktop applications. There are only three applications at the moment, but it will grow.
Reactos is not linux and will never be. Imitating linux software is thus a step in wrong direction. Python is unacceptable too. It would require us to bundle unnecessary stuff.
David Zaragoza pisze:
Hello
I'm pleased to announce the release of Reaction: an aptitude like application written specifically for ReactOS, developed in python. The project homepage is http://code.google.com/p/reaction/
The project have two goals: to provide a repository of free software applications that are known to work decently, i.e doesn't crash, with the latest release of ReactOS; And to provide an automated way to install a set of applications that make a desktop system, eg. Web browser, email client, media player, etc. on ReactOS, something like the GNU/Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva and others.
Software freedom is really important to me, that's why Reaction is completely free software and the application repository will only have free software applications.
There is an installer available at http://reaction.googlecode.com/files/reaction.exe If you have some free time please check it out, and report any bugs you find to http://code.google.com/p/reaction/issues/list
Please remember this is the first release of reaction and it will have bugs for sure, so please be patient.
I'll write some documentation this weekend, but if you are familiar with aptitude, I'm pretty sure there will be no problem figuring reaction out.
I hope you find it useful.
Regards. David Zaragoza
ps. Try 'reaction install reactos-desktop' for a bundle of nice desktop applications. There are only three applications at the moment, but it will grow.
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Marius Przybylski wrote:
Reactos is not linux and will never be. Imitating linux software is thus a step in wrong direction.
Then why is Downloader/rapps following a similar direction towards a Web-based software management application? Linux is not "the evil", and you can't say that everything they invent is wrong or completely unacceptable for ReactOS.
Python is unacceptable too. It would require us to bundle unnecessary stuff.
That's true though. Software written in Python won't be included in ReactOS anytime soon, but I guess the inclusion of that application into plain ReactOS isn't even the target right now.
Apart from this, it's really nice to see small software projects evolving around ReactOS!
Best regards,
Colin
Il giorno lun, 07/09/2009 alle 20.58 +0200, Colin Finck ha scritto:
Then why is Downloader/rapps following a similar direction towards a Web-based software management application? Linux is not "the evil", and you can't say that everything they invent is wrong or completely unacceptable for ReactOS.
IMHO a "software repository" can be very useful when ReactOS will be "stable" and some (l)user want to use it.
That's true though. Software written in Python won't be included in ReactOS anytime soon, but I guess the inclusion of that application into plain ReactOS isn't even the target right now.
Why not? Python is a powerful language (IMHO). There are some applications written in Py.
Enrico
If people want python they can go download it themselves.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Enrico Bassetti enrico.bassetti@q4q5.itwrote:
Il giorno lun, 07/09/2009 alle 20.58 +0200, Colin Finck ha scritto:
Then why is Downloader/rapps following a similar direction towards a Web-based software management application? Linux is not "the evil", and you can't say that everything they invent is wrong or completely unacceptable for ReactOS.
IMHO a "software repository" can be very useful when ReactOS will be "stable" and some (l)user want to use it.
That's true though. Software written in Python won't be included in
ReactOS
anytime soon, but I guess the inclusion of that application into plain ReactOS isn't even the target right now.
Why not? Python is a powerful language (IMHO). There are some applications written in Py.
Enrico
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