Re: [IBMiOSS] gcc for all Litmis Spaces?

If you created the command, wouldn't the button then be trivial to add?

If so, then I'd for vote for the command first.

Yes, that would make the button trivial. Btw, if anyone wants gcc in their
environment please shoot team@xxxxxxxxxx an email with your Litmis Space
GUI. Fairly easy for us to add it.

Also, love it when people post their successes/failures to public forum for
others to learn from. Guys like David Dressler** take that to the max, but
even reporting back here/Ryver (like many of you already have) is great.
These longer discussions are providing excellent foundation for years to
come (Google searches). I believe IBMiOSS will be much further along in a
years time (lots of wrinkles ironed out). In many ways PASE has never seen
this much activity and we're stretching it further than ever before. So I
am not at all surprised at the amount of tweaking we're seeing. We also
have an unprecedented amount of attention to PASE from IBM (and they're
including the source and patches!!***). Good things just keep coming.
Some are frustrated with what appears to be "a mess" and that's
understandable. But take heart, what once took 1yr is now being delivered
in a quarter(this is my perception) through IBM and community participation!

**http://bit.ly/phpdave-compiling-php7-from-source-on-ibmi-pase-aix
***http://bit.ly/dw-sourcecode Being able to see the source/patches allows
us to learn "what went into bringing git/bash/etc to IBM i".

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


On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Jim Steil <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you created the command, wouldn't the button then be trivial to add? If
so, then I'd for vote for the command first.

-Jim

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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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