Packaging OSLib

[alan buckley]

>Tony van der Hoff <tony at vanderhoff.org> wrote:
>"alan buckley" <alan_baa at hotmail.com> wrote in message
><BAY101-F206D6673C14EFB9231B075F0520 at phx.gbl>
>
[snip]

> > I think I didn't make myself very clear here. What I was wondering was 
>if
> > there were any plans to create an OSLib package (i.e. a packaged version
> > of the library) so the latest (packaged) version of the library could be
> > downloaded using the RiscPkg Package manager.
>
>Why? What benefits would that bestow?
>

It would allow me to see when updates are available from a single
location and download the update very simply along with updates
of any other libraries or programs that are packaged. It also means
that any source code packaged can show that it requires OSLib to
rebuild it and which version and give a convenient way to get it.

There are probably better people than me to give the general benefits of
a package manager. You may want to look at the RISC OS Packaging site
http://www.riscpkg.org/.

Regards,
Alan