Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of Obsolete/MovedToTree/PackageManagement/OldIdeas

Timestamp:

Dec 28, 2010, 9:50:50 AM (13 years ago)

Author:

wkornewald

Comment:

wow, just saw that you want to work on the package manager :)

Obsolete/MovedToTree/PackageManagement/OldIdeas

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 '''axeld''': I have to agree with brecht. And also, I like the package file system best, as it also solves on how to deal with ported software, and libraries as well. Only drivers would probably need special treatment (depends on how early the package file system is available, but I guess that could be made work as well, like having a "actually install on disk" option for driver packages).
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+'''wkornewald''': My original intention was to not force the user through any installation procedure. Simply download the app and run it directly from the downloads folder to see if it works well and if yes the user can move it to the "Apps" folder.
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 Application folders ({{{/boot/apps}}} and {{{/boot/home/<user>/apps}}}) display the list of installed bundles including information (description, availability of updates, security risk warning), just like the mail folder in BeOS displays emails.
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+{{{
+#!div style="background-color: #EEEEEE; border: 1px solid; margin: 20pt; padding: 5pt;"
+'''wkornewald''': The system should automatically remove settings of deleted apps after a certain amount of time. You don't really want the user to manually clean up his system. The cleanup delay should be long enough to allow the user to update an app by deleting the old version and downloading the new version and it should be long enough to allow the user to "undo" his action. Maybe 1-2 months is fine.
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 === Dependencies ===
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 #!div style="background-color: #EEEEEE; border: 1px solid; margin: 20pt; padding: 5pt;"
 '''brecht''': While I initially liked the idea of not having to install software, I now feel that it is not suited for all types of applications and games. While we can make a differentiate between 'large' and 'small' applications and require installation of large apps (or suffer from poor performance), this feels like a bit of a kludge. Is is really that bad to 'install' software once? Installing can be reduced to decompressing and should not bother the user much. If the user knows he has to install '''all''' bundles, there can be no confusion.
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+'''wkornewald''': I don't fully remember my original proposal (it's been several years :), but I think there's a middle-path: When the bundle is opened for the first time it's decompressed and cached automatically. When the bundle is deleted from the file system the cache is cleaned, too. That way you have the best of both worlds and the user only has a slow first start, but all subsequent app starts will be fast. Maybe the cache itself could be a single uncompressed bundle/image file if that's more efficient than having lots of small files spread over the main file system. A large coherent file can probably be read into memory much faster and should speed up app starts noticeably.
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