Automating the process (xdeb-install)

[thetredev]

Hi, just wanted to make you aware that I wrote a wrapper to automate xdeb: https://github.com/thetredev/xdeb-install

If you have any suggestions for me, please let me know. Also, if you don't want to be involved in any way, also let me know. Thank you!

[toluschr]

First of all, sorry for my late reply and thank you for the effort you put into improving xdeb. I think xdeb-install has a lot of potential and don't mind being involved at all. Here are some suggestions that came to my mind while having a brief look at the source code:

1. Specifications should provide a post_unpack or modify_destdir function to modify package contents for better compatibility
2. The user should be able to specify either a file or a custom download url
3. If a given package name does not have a specification, a default one be used instead (Requires 2.)
4. xdeb-install needs more package specifications
5. Your project could well be used to automate testing, if there will be future versions of xdeb

[thetredev]

Thanks for your feedback! Highly appreciated!

My code is probably not verbatim enough, but steps 2 and 3 should already be implemented. I'll see what I can do primarily about step 1, improving steps 2 and 3 as a secondary along the way. Step 4 will take the longest time obviously.

I'm working on it in my spare time, so I guess the best way of updating you with the progress is via this thread. Will keep you posted.

[thetredev]

I finally got around to working on it again. Since the whole package specification thing got a lot more complex than I expected, I rewrote the whole thing in Go, and I also created a separate repository to hold package specifications: https://github.com/thetredev/xdeb-install-repositories/

Nearly all your points are fixed in my opinion. Only one is missing is the first. Can you elaborate on post_unpack and modify_destdir? Thanks!

[toluschr]

Just tested it and must say, I'm quite impressed and I'll definitely be using the xdeb-install wrapper over xdeb in the future!

If I recall correctly, I meant that if a package provides lets say /usr/share/xyz/bin/xyz, the wrapper should be able to link/move it to /bin/xyz using a post_unpack "hook".

[thetredev]

Thank you for the feedback. Gotcha, I'm not sure if I can implement that right now, will probably take some time.

[thetredev]

Can you give me an example package to work with?