I will using SM2.1 and give feedback.
Right now I have directories and nested folder and a load script that I 
edit manually for the dependencies.....

Stef

On Lundi, nov 24, 2003, at 10:35 Europe/Zurich, 
goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:

> ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>>> What? Please remember - SM is package format agnostic. Let me repeat 
>>> -
>>> package format agnostic.
>>>
>>> If you want a "stuff everything in a single file"-format - then use a
>>> SAR. That problem was solved a long time ago.
>>
>> But if I have three sar packages I will have to code the dependencies
>> between them by hand
>> and what I need as user is :	a package system with dependencies that
>> with which I can deliver my code.
>
> Well, IMHO SM is turning into exactly that "a package system with
> dependencies that with which I can deliver my code".
>
> But you are asking me for a "single file" package format in which you
> can stuff your sars and send it to someone - and that is not how SM2
> will work. Personally I think such a mechanism is less interesting.
>
> If you look at Debian (or any other distro btw) they don't have such a
> mechanism. Each package is in a file on its own. And 99% of all the
> packages I install in Debian are installed using:
>
> 	apt-get install <packagename>
>
> Which resolves dependencies, downloads all needed package files and
> unpacks/install them etc. Which is also what SM2 will be able to do
> eventually. And nowhere in this process is there a "compound package
> file" involved.
>
> But if you (or anyone else) want to spend time on it then why don't you
> simply create a "SAR wizard" that can take a bunch of SM packages as
> input and generate a compound SAR including a load script.
>
> If you want to force 13 specific package releases in a specific order
> onto the person you are sending it to - then that is surely what you
> want to do. But I don't want to do that with SM2.
>
> Please enlighten me if I am missing the point here.
>
> regards, Göran
>