Re: [Help-smalltalk] brainstorming about gst-package and fetching remote packages

[Gwenael Casaccio]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:20 +0100, Gwenael Casaccio wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 12:11 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 11/05/2009 11:32 AM, Gwenael Casaccio wrote:
> > > - first we need an easy way to get repositories (i.e. the list of
> > > packages)
> > 
> > I think there would be two parts to implement:
> > 
> > 1) download a package given a URL (could be a http URL to a .star 
> > package, or a git/svn URL to a directory including a package file, or both?)
> > 
> > 2) find a package's URL given its name.
> > 
> > For 1, support would be needed in the beginning for svn and git.
> > 
> > For 2, we could support a centralized repository at smalltalk.gnu.org 
> > (like rubygems.org) so the URLs could be standard: gst-package 
> > --download iliad -> gst-package --download 
> > http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project/iliad/repository.  The URLs could 
> > redirect to the "real" URL, e.g. from 
> > http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project/iliad/repository to 
> > git://github.com/NicolasPetton/iliad.git.
> > 
> > Do you think this would be too much of a hack?  Maybe it's better to 
> > return some XML thing from 
> > http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project/iliad/repository and parse it?
> > 
> 
> So we'll have a central repository at: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/
> 
> For each URLs inside http://smalltalk.gnu.org/packages/ we will have a
> package.(st|xml) file that stores the information about the related
> project (website, version, ...) 
> 
> that seems fine for me.
> 
> > A third part would be to update packages on the fly from the remote 
> > repository (especially if it is a git or svn repository).
> 
> Yes even if it is not a git or svn repository we can download new
> version.
> 
> > > - for each repositories do we support multiple protocols : ssh, git,
> > > svn, http(s), ftp, ...
> > 
> > That would be nice.
> >

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