On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm sorry to spoil the party before it started but I'm not very fond of > having yet another package manager orthogonal to what distributions have > already. This is definitely not a way to get anything like that into a > distribution which has proper policies. I am happy to defer work on a full-blown package manager for now. I do agree, the world already has a surfeit of package managers. As I say, I'd prefer a minimal interface that could be back-ended by one or more of those if possible. Initially I'd like to focus on: * a descriptor format for packages providing hints about how to activate an extension * guidelines for the filesystem layout of extensions themselves * a way to locally locate extensions that might be subject to activation * the interface between the git runtime and the activated package repository * the interface to activate/deactivate a locally located package I also want to avoid baking in any too many decisions about things like registries and distribution models. That can come later. jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html