Multi distro/multi OS install: or package: URI scheme ?

[François Revol]

> I am not sure I understand the point here: the url is an instruction
> to install a package, but does not contain the package itself?

Thus the I in URI, for Identifier...

> I think OpenSuses approach is better:
> http://en.opensuse.org/Standards/One_Click_Install. I like that it

Shrug xml... I fear it might be overdesigned and thus not widely 
accepted.

Just pkg-config itself is a pain to port & use on BeOS, so...

They should really advertize it then... even I didn't know about it :p

I didn't manage to grasp how to find which package name to send to apt 
in case of debian from the look of it...

> works with existing protocols and leverages mime types and their
> associations to applications.

On Haiku uri schemes are handled as a subset of mimetypes anyway :

http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheSupportKit_Constants.html#B_URL_HTTP
http: -> application/x-vnd.Be.URL.http

see
http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/bin/urlwrapper.cpp
http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/bin/urlwrapper.rdef

so it wouldn't change a thing...

I started designing a handler for .desktop files once, though never 
finished.

I might have a try at it... But people will never put Haiku related 
infos in such files anyway, so it will have to be looked up by name in 
a yet-to-be-done package manager anyway.

François.