Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-30 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
I wrote a bit on how pip and apt should play at http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/ On Jan 23, 2015 6:51 AM, "Jonathan McDowell" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:57:55AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > > It takes a couple of minutes to download something using pip or > > npm; how long does it t

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 09:54:14AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 02:15:22PM +, Sam Hartman wrote: [snip] > > However, we'll probably find that if > > we tried to automate something we'd discover legal problems. > > The fact that CPAN, PyPI and others exist and function

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 02:15:22PM +, Sam Hartman wrote: > One huge advantage of teaching our package management tools to > understand alternate package technologies and convert on the fly is that > we can use the mirror networks of the language-specific packages. > Unfortunately, we're fairly

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-26 Thread Sam Hartman
One huge advantage of teaching our package management tools to understand alternate package technologies and convert on the fly is that we can use the mirror networks of the language-specific packages. Unfortunately, we're fairly picky about licensing issues and legal distributability of packages.

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Anthony Towns erisian.com.au> writes: > don't think it's as feasible: > > - if cpan/pypi/etc change their formats and the conversion scripts need >updating, it'd have to be done on every system, rather than in one >place - additional build-depends and depends cannot be expressed upstre

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:51:32AM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:57:55AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > > It takes a couple of minutes to download something using pip or > > npm; how long does it take to get a python or nodejs Debianized and > > installable? (eg: learn

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-23 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:57:55AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > It takes a couple of minutes to download something using pip or > npm; how long does it take to get a python or nodejs Debianized and > installable? (eg: learning that npm2deb exists, how to use it, what else > you have to do to have