Re: Protocol & package independent draft

[Andrew Turner <zombie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Andrew