libraries need an installer and should be packaged and released

[Abdulaziz Ghuloum]

If you have an installation script (e.g., make install) for the libraries, and can manage to release them (e.g., tar gzip them) on regular intervals (e.g., once a year :-)), then packagers of linux distributions can pick the bundle and make it part of debian/ubuntu/fedora whatever.

Yes, I know it's not fun, but it should not be too hard either. It makes the live of packagers easier (this was my observation when I released ikarus, because it had standard ./configure && make && make install build process, it was packaged for debian within a couple of days of release).

It might not be too urgent to do so now, since I am yet to release 0.0.4, but just keep it in mind.

Aziz,,,

[Derick Eddington (derick-eddington)]

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 18:00 +0000, Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
> If you have an installation script (e.g., make install) for the
> libraries, and can manage to release them (e.g., tar gzip them) on
> regular intervals (e.g., once a year :-)), then packagers of linux
> distributions can pick the bundle and make it part of
> debian/ubuntu/fedora whatever.
>
> Yes, I know it's not fun, but it should not be too hard either. It
> makes the live of packagers easier (this was my observation when I
> released ikarus, because it had standard ./configure && make && make
> install build process, it was packaged for debian within a couple of
> days of release).
>
> It might not be too urgent to do so now, since I am yet to release
> 0.0.4, but just keep it in mind.

I'm not sure what I should do for "make" or "make install" because these
are R6RS libraries that are possibly compiled for different
implementations, possibly not, and need to go in some
implementation-specific search folder. Hopefully a tarball of
source-code is all packagers need and they can turn it into whatever
they want.

[Abdulaziz Ghuloum (aghuloum)]

Why was this marked Incomplete?

[Derick Eddington (derick-eddington)]

On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 09:38 +0000, Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
> Why was this marked Incomplete?

Because it wasn't really "In Progress" and I'm not sure what to do about
it because our understanding of how to package and auto-install R6RS
libraries for multiple implementations seems to be incomplete. Making a
tarball is easy, but I don't know where to host it "for release". I'll
see if L.P. let's me host a tarball (know anything about this?). I
agree it would be good if the libraries could be installed using Make
(or any other installer), so "Confirmed" is probably more appropriate.

If/when my Library Files SRFI gets finalized, it will offer a standard
for file naming and finding and a single environment variable for
configuring search paths, which I hope will help solve the
packaging/installing problem. I submitted it over a month ago, and
yesterday I submitted some updates to it, and I'm just waiting for them
to stick it on the website as a draft. I don't know what the
delay/problem is. Four days ago, I asked what the status is, and I'm
waiting for a response. If you want to look at it, it's here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~derick-eddington/+junk/library-files

[Abdulaziz Ghuloum (aghuloum)]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Derick Eddington wrote:

> I'll see if L.P. let's me host a tarball (know anything about this?).

Yes.

First, register a "Series". Ikarus has a 0.0 series, see:
   https://launchpad.net/ikarus/0.0

Second, add a release to that series. Ikarus has a 0.0.3 release, see
   https://launchpad.net/ikarus/0.0/0.0.3

Once you have a release, attach any number of download files to it.

Aziz,,,

[Derick Eddington (derick-eddington)]

Thanks!

On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 14:19 +0000, Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Derick Eddington wrote:
>
> > I'll see if L.P. let's me host a tarball (know anything about this?).
>
> Yes.
>
> First, register a "Series". Ikarus has a 0.0 series, see:
> https://launchpad.net/ikarus/0.0
>
> Second, add a release to that series. Ikarus has a 0.0.3 release, see
> https://launchpad.net/ikarus/0.0/0.0.3
>
> Once you have a release, attach any number of download files to it.