From owner-freebsd-config Sat Apr 25 20:38:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05802 for freebsd-config-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles322.castles.com [208.214.167.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05783 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA01885; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804260335.UAA01885@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Eivind Eklund cc: config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OSD - should this be added to pkg_*? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 22:39:13 +0200." <19980425223913.09596@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:35:12 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Another attempt at an open standard for packaging, this time to record > dependencies and what to run on which OS. > > http://www.microsoft.com/standards/osd/osdintro.htm > > The actual spec is available as a link of the above URL, and at > > http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD.html My biggest beef with this is that it requires all of the intelligence be in either the OSD consumer (browser), or an unconnected helper application. There appears to be no way that you can say: - on this OS version I depend on A, B and C - but on that OS version, I need A, C, D and E for example. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message