[Installit-dev] "package manager " becomes "InstallIt"

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Tuukka Mäkinen schrieb:
> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> 
>>Nicolas Masse schrieb:
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:06:44 +0300
>>>Tuukka Mäkinen <tukem at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>3. Tell plugin to check if it exists on the system
>>>>3a. continue
>>>>3b. Error dialog
>>>
>>>
>>>yes, we must not forget that :-). 
>>>But, perhaps would it be better to just show available package manager systems in 2.
>>>(note verification can also be done to verify that the pre-selected system is always available, 
>>>even if the opposite is unlikely to happen)
>>
>>
>>We don't need to check if the "plugin" (?) exists. We provide the user
>>with a list of implementations/backends available and he chooses which
>>one to use. That's all.
> 
> 
> Doh.. of course we don't check whether the plugin exists but whether the 
> local system has that package manager or not. I agree Nicholas' way of 
> doing the checks first and then showing just available package masters 
> would be more user friendly. Doing the checks only when necessary would 
> be little faster but admittedly it shouldn't take so long to do them.

Sure, we won't let him choose a backend which isn't supported by his
platform.

> 
> 
> 
>>>>2. Download sources for selected package
>>>>3. Ask installation paths from plugin
>>>
>>>
>>>yes, with a default one pre-selected.
>>
>>
>>The backend API might need something like a flag which tells us there's
>>no default installation path. For RPM, DEB etc. there is (/usr) but
>>maybe on other systems there isn't (source for example). If there is
>>*one* we can just head on. If not, we'll have to let the user decide
>>(maybe only on the first run, too).
> 
> 
> The way I meant this was that there are get_bin_path, get_data_path,... 
> functions in the plugin for getting the paths. Plugin either gets the 
> path from system or has some hardcoded default. Then the gui would show 
> that path with a possibility to change it. If we would like to tell 
> there is no default then plugin could just return empty string.

Yeah, something like this. Both solutions are very similar. I let Benny
decide which way to go since he seems to be the one with the best
knowledge about different platforms.

- Jannis