Re: address@hidden: swbis-0.463 released]

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   Would someone please take a look at how swbis could fit into
   our design for GNU packages?

I have already looked at it briefly, and found it to complex for
something simple as taring up a directory.

One has to write a special configuration file that contains all kinds
of redundant information, the directory structure was also far more
complex than what it needs to be (i.e. extracting the tarball won't
give you the classic directory layout, but something a bit different
where some commands live in special subdirectories, and documents in
another special subdirectory).

This is one example of a package I found that was created with swbis:

POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/dfiles/INDEX
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/dfiles/INFO
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/dfiles/signature
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/dfiles/chksum_md5
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/pfiles/INFO
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/agent/INFO
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/agent/configure
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/commands/INFO
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/commands/configure
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/man/INFO
POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/INDEX
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/agent/usr/lbin/swagent
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/agent/usr/sbin/swagentd
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/commands/usr/sbin/swinstall
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/commands/usr/sbin/swpackage
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man4/swpackage.4
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swagent.8
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swagentd.8
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swconfig.8
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swinstall.8
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swlist.8
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swpackage.8
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swremove.8
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swverify.8
POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swcopy.8

Not being intimate with the POSIX standard that documents this, I
don't know how much one can change things to make them sane.