[csw-users] Dependency management

[Dennis Clarke]

> (posting as new as the topic is new)
>
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>  >> shuttlebox wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>  >> Other instances is just the sheer number of packages required
>  >> to get one package.  Because there is no master database of
>  >> dependencies that can be querried remotely, a package has to
>  >> be unrolled, have it's dependencies checked, and then stop and
>  >> go get more to resolve dependencies.
>  >>
>  >> In a better version of blastwave, the check for dependencies
>  >> would happen before downloading the first package.  In a standalone
>  >> environment, the existing model could be used.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Ben, I think that we had spoken about a small PostgreSQL client that
> could
>  > query a database server for the required dependency information.  Do you
>  > think that we could put together a prototype ? I am certainly ready to
>  > create the database server and the query would not be all that complex.
>  > Recursive perhaps  but not complex.
>
> Please, please, do not reinvent the wheel here! Most of the Linux
> distros has solved this in a very elegant way. It might not be possible
> to compile those packages directly on Solaris because of GPL issues, but
> at least their ideas can be leveraged.
>
> Another option is to look to different, but yet similar dependency
> management solutions like Apache Maven which could provide a build system.
>

We can at least discuss possible solutions.


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Dennis Clarke