On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:29:28AM +0100, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> How do I build a SAR file?

Yes, we need better documentation. (I'l look into this later...)

Something related:

I just discussed with Alain Fischer and Hannes how to distribute
the ANSI Testsuite.

here's a part of the mail:

| I'm not yet totally decided what format to use for my own
| packages: If you look at SUnit 3.1, there are changesets
| available in the "real" cros-dialect distribution. So I'd
| like to "just use them". (You can stuff multiple changesets
| in a SAR).
| This would make updating the package very simple, and it makes
| it clear to the upstream-maintainer what we changed (because
| that would be in it's own changeset).
| 
| But then I dicovered DVS: This ist *wonderful*:
| DVS keeps track of all methods that e.g. SUnit has put
| all over the place (Object, Collections, etc).
|
| You can uninstall a DVS package, or update the file on
| disc with a single click. Or, if you download a new version
| of an allready installed package, DVS figures out what the
| changes are, builds a changeset on the fly and installs it.
| 
| So I'm pretty much sure that at this time, DVS is the way
| to go for all bigger packages.
| For more complex things, you can stuff DVS-Fileout into SAR-Files
| and e.g. run postscript and install scripts.


Now: I just realized that we have exactly the same problem as
the Debian guys.

1) DVS has features we really need (e.g. uninstall, keeping
   track of method-additions)

2) There are some packages build from cross-plattform projects
   (SUnit, Smacc, Refatoring Browser, Ansi testsuite).
   
   I would like to have a scheme were we use the orinal files
   from the distributin as much as possible.

So all in all we need some kind of solution like the .deb
from Debian: The Squeak Packages should be build from
the original Sources+Patches, the resulting package should
use DVS inside a SAR. (So we would need some kind of "source
packages" (original source+Squeak realated changes)  
and "installation packages" (easy to install and uninstall).

    Marcus

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