[lokisetup] setup v2 (was lokisetup for dummies)

[Timothee Besset]

Well I didn't know about autopackage existence. Gave it a brief review, 
they have a nice website. Anyone have experience with it, care to share 
it? In what ways does it compare to loki_setup?

After a quick review through the website, it lists a bunch of useful 
functionalities, but it has the design flaws which I don't like about 
most win32-style installers, and which loki_setup avoided. For instance 
it's script based, uses an API of bash script functions, and I'm really 
not fond of that stuff.

TTimo

Sean Middleditch wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 13:16, Timothee Besset wrote:
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>>I had some time to consider what I'd like to see in a new version of
>>setup. Spent a few hours putting together a framework.
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>>SVN repo: https://zerowing.idsoftware.com:666/setup/trunk/
>>https://zerowing.idsoftware.com:666/setup-files/ for a tarball
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>>See the README for all the details
>>https://zerowing.idsoftware.com:666/setup/trunk/README
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>>The main approach I'm taking here is that the installer code doesn't have
>>to be bundled with the setup. It can be provided as a generic system,
>>installed through .rpm or .deb, which all setups will use, being mostly
>>data files. Smaller setups, less ABI issues..
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>>The current code is proof of concept. It runs through a basic text UI and
>>mimics a real session. Looking forward to feedback and discussing the
>>design. My approach needs to have enough followers to become worthy of
>>having the core setup packages installed on all distributions.
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>Something that might be interesting is cooperation with the Autopackage
>project, which has a more or less working system up for basic packages. 
>As Autopackage is a superset of lokisetup functionality, and a user
>experience would be best served by having has few different,
>incompatible packaging/installation systems as possible, using
>Autopackage for installs probably makes the most sense for any
>distro-neutral installers.
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>>TTimo
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>>On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:42:36 -0500
>>"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus at clutteredmind.org> wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 17:44, Timothee Besset wrote:
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>>>>Btw lokisetup 2.0 gets overdue
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>>>Agreed.
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>>>>, but I guess everyone is overbooked anyway.
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>>>Sadly, you're right. We're at the point where loki_setup is a pain in
>>>the ass, but it works, more or less. I'd honestly be more interested in
>>>some sort of user friendly InstallerMaker type thing than reworking the
>>>actual installer itself right now, but that's just me.
>>>
>>>--ryan.
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