Re: The need for an official GNUstep desktop

[Andrew Sveikauskas]

On 2006-08-27 16:57:18 -0400 Adrian Robert <arobert@cogsci.ucsd.edu> 
wrote:

> Packages would need to be 
> based on source code / GNUstep-make.

What about a package manager framework that handed off actual package 
management to NSBundles?  Have code bundles for RPM, dpkg, BSD pkg 
tools, etc.  Each bundle could have code to query, install, remove, 
upgrade, check for updates, etc., specific to that platform.  They 
could even have code for creating native packages based on GNUstep 
makefiles from source.  (Possibly after extending gnustep-make.)  
Maybe this is a bit ambitious but it seems to me a good idea to take 
advantage of the features GNUstep offers, namely NSBundle and GNUstep 
make, to produce something that might even work well with the rest of 
the system, i.e. in the future foreseeing a distro that could upgrade 
or install bash or gcc or other unrelated programs using all GNUstep 
APIs.

Andrew