gmane.comp.file-systems.zero-install.devel

0launch 0.36

Thomas Leonard — 2008-09-06T11:53:52

A new release of Zero Install (0.36) is now available: http://0install.net/injector.html Changes since 0.35: Note that although some changes have been made to better support Windows, this is untested. We are still looking for volunteers to test and debug it on Windows. - Update the display less frequently while downloading Debian bug #497569 says downloading uses 100% CPU (Simon Wenner). Not sure if this is the reason, but we're probably updating the display too frequently anyway. - Reject URIs without a path component (e.g. http://host). - Don't assume an RPM-based distribution just because /var/lib/rpm exists. Actually check for the /var/lib/rpm/Packages file instead (reported by Demetrio Girardi). - Reject obvious attempts to drag archives to 0desktop. People keep trying to drag .exe, .tar.bz2, etc archives to 0desktop. Reject URLs ending in these strings with a more helpful error message (rather than downloading them and complaining that it's not XML). - Record architecture for D

Re: News keys for crystalspace3d.org

Frank Richter — 2008-09-04T20:39:45

Yes. I won't use the other (first) "feed key" any more (well, I can't - I forgot the passphrase. Shame on me, I know). I'll sign it with my "personal" key. -f.r. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

CPU load when downloading

Thomas Leonard — 2008-09-04T18:52:10

Is anyone experiencing high CPU load when downloading things, as in this bug report? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497569 I've made a couple of changes to try and make it faster: http://repo.or.cz/w/zeroinstall.git (please check that it still works!)

News keys for crystalspace3d.org

Thomas Leonard — 2008-09-04T17:48:49

Hi Frank, The feeds on crystalspace3d.org have changed their GPG key to: 517085B7261D3B03A97515319C2C2CD1D41AF5BB Is this your new key? It's not signed by either of the previous two... Thanks,

Re: 0publish-gui-0.9 error when signing feed

Thomas Leonard — 2008-09-04T15:30:58

2008/9/4 Lennon Cook riscque.net>: Oops. Does this fix it? http://repo.or.cz/w/0publish-gui.git?a=commit;h=44cf520f1fafb3e71efc275ffa35968608377e39

Re: 0launch fails,RPM database and implementations missing (?)

Thomas Leonard — 2008-09-04T15:25:11

2008/9/4 Demetrio Girardi niksula.hut.fi>: /var/lib/rpm exists (so it thinks this is an RPM-based distribution), but /var/lib/rpm/Packages doesn't, which produces the warning. I've changed the code to check for /var/lib/rpm/Packages: http://repo.or.cz/w/zeroinstall.git?a=commit;h=ef30b8b495357a8bd370f653ac80136e5938c826 Apart from that, the reason it doesn't work is that there is no FreeBSD binary in the LyX feed. If FreeBSD can run Linux binaries, try uncommenting the Linux line in arch.py's os_ranks: os_ranks = { 'Linux' : 3,# Linux (lots of systems support emulation) None : 2,# Any OS _uname[0] : 1,# Current OS } Let us know if it works...

Re: 0publish-gui-0.9 error when signing feed

Frank Richter — 2008-09-04T14:03:16

Maybe that should better read 'os.environ.has_key("GPG_AGENT_INFO") and os.environ["GPG_AGENT_INFO"]' then ... -f.r. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

0publish-gui-0.9 error when signing feed

Lennon Cook — 2008-09-04T13:16:14

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0launch fails,RPM database and implementations missing (?)

Demetrio Girardi — 2008-09-04T10:44:59

Hello, 0lauching the lyx feed fails, giving a warning about a missing /var/lib/rpm/Packages file, and saying that there are no implementations for the feed. Is this a problem of the feed, or of RPM? the latter is installed on this (freebsd) machine but I don't know how it is configured and I don't have root access. Attached is the verbose output. How should I proceed? thanks in advance. [dgirardi< at >kaneli /var/lib/rpm]$ 0launch -cv http://0install.net/2007/3rd-party/LyX.xml INFO:root:Running 0launch 0.35 ['http://0install.net/2007/3rd-party/LyX.xml']; Python 2.4.3 (#2, Oct 19 2006, 13:34:46) [GCC 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305] INFO:root:Interface has no implementations! INFO:root:Scheduling new task: solve_with_downloads INFO:root:Scheduling new task: quitter INFO:root:Interface has no implementations! INFO:root:Scheduling new task: download http://0install.net/2007/3rd-party/LyX.xml INFO:root:S

Proposal for a "never seen" system based on Zero Install with Web 2.0 approach

Antonio Orlando — 2008-09-01T17:06:12

I want to propose here a system I've envisioned, where Zero Install would be perfect as a core. As system I mean something that could be an application normally loadable in the preferred platform (Linux, Windows, Mac, etc.), integrated with a web service, but for simplicity let's think at it like a Linux distro, and for more simplicity let's think at it as a live one. So, I load this live distro, and it asks for some user/password to connect to the companion web service, or offers the possibility to "register". The companion web service is essentially a database storing some infos: urls of apps, names, descriptions, stars, hearts, etc. Let's say I already have my account, so I type my credentials and here we go: my custom "desktop" is built on the fly with informations retrieved from the web service. Let's say I've not marked any app as "visible on desktop", so my desktop will be like this: Just a text-input field in the bottom bar, with two buttons: "Search", "Run the first one" an

Using the architecture field from nativepackages

Thomas Leonard — 2008-08-23T11:55:21

We used to assume that a native package had an arch type of '*' (i.e. it would always be compatible with everything). However, on a mixed 32 and 64 bit platform, we can't use a 64-bit native library with a downloaded 32-bit implementation. I've changed the code to record the type for x86_64 packages so that they won't be selected in combination with 32-bit implementations: http://repo.or.cz/w/zeroinstall.git?a=commit;h=a1980f1fd207d171d480049a1890ffdb0f72ed02 We might need a similar change for RPMs too. Patches welcome...

Downloads page and Windows

Thomas Leonard — 2008-08-20T18:36:24

The downloads page was getting a bit long and complicated. I've split it into different pages for each platform: http://0install.net/injector.html This gives us some space to put in more detailed instructions, although currently it's just what was on the main page. Contributions welcome! I have, however, tested it on a Windows machine and thus greatly extended the Windows installation instructions. Still doesn't work, but if you'd like to help out here are some hints: http://0install.net/install-windows.html There seem to be some odd problems with file descriptors, backslashes, and DOS line-endings. The usual suspects. Help welcome!

Re: Distribution integration / OpenGLdependency

Thomas Leonard — 2008-08-19T21:03:16

2008/8/19 Frank Richter gmail.com>: Agreed. There are lots of ways to speed up a 3D app (turn off transparency, use lower-quality texture mapping, turn off textures, reduce clipping depth, use models with fewer polygons, use a smaller screen area, etc). Though it might be worth splitting up the level data into smaller chunks that can be downloaded as needed.

Re: FIle associations, icons...

Thomas Leonard — 2008-08-19T21:00:06

2008/8/19 Frank Richter gmail.com>: [...] How about: 1. Associate *.celzip -> application/x-zip-celstart 2. Associate *.gnucash -> application/x-zip-celstart 3. Get user to map application/x-zip-celstart -> celstart-launcher 4. Wait for user to open their accounts file 5. Profit! (this assumes the user was running celstart with limited privs... probably only to the data file they clicked on) The real solution to the MIME problem is to store the MIME type with the file (in the user.mime_type extended attribute). Then you don't need a mapping from name/content to type. But not many programs use this yet. Although sometimes there's an obvious program for a particular type, in general the MIME guessing rules are independent of any particular program. In any case, the MIME mappings file would normally go inside the package, I think. Other installers would expect it to be there. So it would be better to store the relative path to the file, rather than put the contents in the feed. Thanks!

Re: FIle associations, icons...

Frank Richter — 2008-08-19T19:36:07

Done. I guess you could argue for and against that - I'll leave that for KDE and GNOME people, respectively ;) Tho in general, I'd think registering a type may not necessarily be dangerous - you could perhaps maliciously mask the type of a file via a mime mapping - but any automatic association between a file type and a program might. However, I don't know what kind of possibilities exist for that (and how it could be prevented). I'll have to check it out, thanks for the pointer. -f.r. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/_______________________________________________ Zero-install-devel mailing list Zero-install-devel< at >lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/

Re: FIle associations, icons...

Thomas Leonard — 2008-08-19T18:55:44

2008/8/14 Frank Richter gmail.com>: What version is this against? I get: $ git-apply /tmp/mime-in-feed.diff /tmp/mime-in-feed.diff:120: trailing whitespace. /tmp/mime-in-feed.diff:123: trailing whitespace. error: patch failed: zeroinstall/gtkui/addbox.py:9 error: zeroinstall/gtkui/addbox.py: patch does not apply If you use 'git format-patch origin' it should put the required info in the patch (and a log message, credit, etc). Silently adding stuff to the MIME mappings seems dangerous, though. There would need to be some kind of checkbox in the GUI ("Allow this program to update the MIME database" or something). If possible, you should try to get it in the freedesktop.org main database as well, though. As long as your type doesn't conflict with anything (e.g. "*.doc") they'll probably accept it. Thanks!

Re: 0publish-gui: Remove alternate identies(again), show primary identity

Thomas Leonard — 2008-08-19T18:40:48

2008/8/13 Frank Richter gmail.com>: Might be worth uses zeroinstall.injector.gpg.load_keys() here. There were some performance problems with running gpg for each key, IIRC.

Re: Distribution integration / OpenGLdependency

Frank Richter — 2008-08-19T00:12:52

Well, I didn't see any way to hook custom commands in anywhere ... I guess one way would be to create a "wrapper feed": a really simple program that poses as the application you want. When launched, it does a system check or whatever and continues to launch the real app (e.g. by calling 0launch again) when the requirements are met. (Personally, I would find it a bit harsh to reject launching when the requirements are not met; rather, I would inform the user that given the current system the app may not run that well but leave it a possibility to continue.) Hoped to help, -f.r. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/

Distribution integration / OpenGL dependency

Thomas Formella — 2008-08-18T04:47:14

0launch 0.35

Thomas Leonard — 2008-08-16T14:59:52

A new release of Zero Install (0.35) is now available: http://0install.net/injector.html Changes since 0.34: New features: - Added support for multi-arch We can choose either x86_64 binaries or i[3456]86 binaries, but we can't mix both in a single process. Also fixed the sense of the OS and CPU tests so that we now pick the best OS and CPU match rather than the worst (oops!). - Added --cpu and --os arguments to 0launch This allows you to choose a binary for a different host. It's also useful on an x86_64 machine to run an x86 binary. Bug-fixes: - Don't create .desktop filenames with spaces; xdg-desktop-menu gets confused and gives a misleading error message ("does not have a proper vendor prefix") if the name contains a space. Reported by Thomas Formella. - Allow file:///path feed URIs. This is equivalent to just using /path. Useful for drag-and-drop from Konqueror. Reported by Matt Lawrence. - Log a useful warning if a user_overrides file gets corrupted. Don't know what co

Re: FIle associations, icons...

Frank Richter — 2008-08-14T00:51:17