Re: nextstep packaging system

[Rogelio Serrano]

Thanks!

Finding out why it didnt work well makes it interesting and helps
design a better one.



On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Graham Lee <graham@iamleeg.com> wrote:
> Substantially the same way that the Mac OS X .pkg system works, although
> that’s been refined over time.
>
> So there’s a bundle called a pkg, which contains two useful elements: a
> zipped PAX archive containing the payload and a “bill of materials” which
> describes the locations, permissions and sizes of the payload files and
> folders. Installing involves dropping the payload into place and the BOM
> into a known location: I can’t remember where that is now and will probably
> never need to know again :). There’s no reference counting or versioning of
> installed files, which makes uninstallation, upgrades and downgrades
> difficult and makes it a bad model to base another package system on.
>
> More here: http://www.bangmoney.org/nextstep/packages_1.html
>
> Graham.
>
> On 28 Feb 2014, at 09:45, Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi
>
> How did the nextstep package system work?
>
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