a simple solution to Package, preinst/postinst/etc

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Feb 17 11:17:21 UTC 2005


yes we have been discussing with alex and may be we would need a kind 
of properties browser

On 17 févr. 05, at 11:37, Avi Bryant wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:23:08 +0100, Michal <michal-list at auf.net> wrote:
>
>> i. add 4 instance variables to PackageInfo: beforeInstall,
>> afterInstall, beforeRemoval, afterRemoval.
>>
>> ii. clone the ChangeSorter to show a list of package and the content
>> of these 4 variables as a a method in a pane, very much like
>> ChangeSorter does for the current preamble/postscript.
>>
>> iii. add a method that creates a SAR from this new PackageInfo,
>> containing an mcz of the code and relevant (un/)install code in the
>> standard places ('install/preamble', etc.)
>
> Or, better yet, add new definition types to Monticello for these so
> that all you need is the .mcz file.
> If this is what people want it should be easy enough to do; the main
> thing is just to get the tool support for editing these things.
>
> Avi
>




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