Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of UniPackage - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

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-- 
Sylvain


> Ben Myles <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: UniPackage
> System name: unipackage
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> UniPackage is an alternative to distribution-specific packaging
> systems like Debian's DEB, Redhat/Fedora/Mandrake/etc RPM and
> so on. UniPackage works on any Linux distribution, from SuSe to
> your very own Linux From Scratch.
> 
> The beauty of UniPackage is its simplicity. A package is a simple
> tar.bz2 archive. To install a package, simply type:
> 
>         tar jfxv MyApp.tar.bz2
> 
> ... and that's it! The program will be extracted into a directory
> (in the example, the directory would be "MyApp") which conforms
> to the AppDir standard. Furthermore, this "AppDir" can be moved
> anywhere the user wishes without breaking any references to files
> or libraries.
> 
> In addition, UniPackage helps solve the "dependancy hell" problem
> that Linux is rapidly decending into. When the package builder builds
> the package, UniPackage automatically bundles with it all required
> libraries (in a "lib" subdirectory). Furthermore, UniPackage strips
> these libraries to ensure they are of a minimal size.
> 
> With all libraries bundled in the package, you can rest assured that
> even if you don't have the twenty-seven different libraries the
> application depends on, everything will work just fine. However,
> if you do have some (or all) of the libraries available on your
> system, UniPackage will automatically use the libraries already on
> your system (thus conserving memory).
> 
> UniPackage packages can be most effectively used in conjunction
> with rox-filer. Rox-filer allows any program to be run simply
> by clicking on its "AppDir", much the same as Mac OS X!
> 
> Currently, UniPackage consists primarily of a bash script. In the future,
> this will be expanded, and instead of a bash script we will probably
> create a C++ program.
> 
> Source code for the preliminary version can be found at:
> 
> http://www.egive.org.au/UniPackage.tar