Re: [IBMiOSS] gcc for all Litmis Spaces?

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Awhile back we started working on a UI interaction that would allow the end
user to add various features on their own (i.e. click to add gcc to Litmis
Space).  We started that effort because we also had trouble determining
everything to include in a Litmis Space (container) and didn't want to
limit users to our perception of what was required.

We've also thought about hosting a "package server" (for lack of a better
term) that would operate similar to other package managers except this
would be specifically for PASE on IBM i (to deal with all idiosyncrasies).
Then a user could do the following:

$ ipm install gcc

ipm = IBM i Package Manager

The ipm command would then go out to ipm.litmis.com, retrieve the gcc
package, and install it on the machine.

Which would be preferable, a command or a button?

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:37 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> As I've been saying, Litmis Spaces does a pretty good job of looking
> Unix-like. I think it could be taken a step further though, by
> installing gcc on *all* the spaces.
>
> From what I can gather, we're not at a place where this will magically
> make pip (or gem or npm) work for arbitrary third-party packages, but
> it would give folks a chance to try to build stuff manually that they
> couldn't otherwise.
>
> The idea of a kitchen-sink Litmis Space (with all the 5733-OPS
> options) has also crossed my mind, since we can only have one space at
> a time. But it's a lot of disk for more features than most people
> would use.
>
> John Y.
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