Code sprint: pkg.m
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This page is meant to organize and report the efforts to improve pkg.m
Participants
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- KaKiLa 07:34, 2 October 2012 (PDT)
- carandraug 06:47, 3 October 2012 (PDT)
Schedule
Objectives
Option update should behave as option install
- It should parse a list of packages and maybe the same flags as install (-auto, -noauto, etc)
Coders
Remove -global and -local flags
- Those flags are currently ignored internally anyways so they should disappear
Coders
- Carnë has already a changeset for this
Allow packages to deprecate functions
- Create a system that allows packages to deprecate functions as in core. Possibilities are:
- Get pkg to accept a deprecated directory inside the package and add it to the search path. Functions in those directories would have to be treated the same as the ones inside the core deprecated
- PKG_ADD can be used to hack this. Package developers would still have to actually write the warnings on the function code but this would allow to have the functions in a separate directory so they don't foget to remove them on the next release
- The package developer can also use something like Make to create a normal package from something that actually had a more complex structure, inclusive deprecated directories
Coders
Resolve packages dependencies automatically. Download and install
- Get pkg to resolve dependencies automatically by downloading and installing them too.
Coders
Allow download and install of multiple versions of the same package
Coders
Make pkg.m more verbose by default
- make the package just a bit more verbose by default
Coders
Support for more than one src directory(?)
Coders
Accept make flags
- make pkg able to supply extra configure and make flags, useful for distributions, including -j for make
Coders
Remove auto option
Coders
Allow installation from given url
- Accept -url <url> to install files and packages directly from the web