Protocol & package independent draft

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:25:05PM +1200, Andrew Turner wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:22:23PM +1200, Andrew Turner wrote:
> >
> >>I have been writing a design for binup to become protocol an package 
> >>independent.  This document dosn't specify how to build the packages or 
> >>how to install the packages.
> >>
> >>This is the first draft and I would like feedback.
> >>
> >>With this draft the client is responsible to select the packages on the 
> >>server to fetch then install them on it's own.
> >
> >
> >IMO, what we need is working code, not more drafts that get
> >bikeshedded around for a bit but then never get implemented.
> >
> >Kris
> 
> I've started writing some code in c to download the packages using
> libfetch.  If there are any changes to the draft I will fix them in the
> code when I release it.

Great, good luck with the project!

Kris
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