On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:13:56AM +1000, Jon Seymour wrote:
> Platform specific concerns such as building and (most) dependency
> management will be delegated to platform specific package managers.
>
> The overriding objective is to allow a git user to install a git
> plugin called foobar with 4 words:
>
> git pm install foobar
>
> given that someone, somwhere, has done the work to create a plugin
> descriptor and create an installable package of some kind for whatever
> package managers are required in order to successfully install the
> plugin on the target platform.
>
> The same command should work whether your git platform is hosted on
> MAC OSX, cygwin, Debian, Fedora, AIX or Windows.
>
> Where git can be used as the underlying package manager, it will be
> (for extensions which really are just source repos). If more
> sophisticated build support is required, then that will be delegated
> to a platform specific package manager via one of a small number of
> package manager adapters.
Ok, I write my "git logx", which is a single file -- git-logx.c.
Compilation steps:
$ gcc -lz git-logx.c.
> then that will be delegated to a platform specific package manager
Which one? Say I am on debian. dpkg-buildpackage? So I would get a
git-logx.deb, which I should install as root? In that case, you forgot
one word:
sudo git pm install foobar
Or I got it wrong?
Motiejus
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