From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2003-11-29T04:07:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Baker

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:37:12 +0900, T. Onoma wrote:
> 
> Baker is an advanced source-based package management system It is 100% well 
> structed OO Ruby code, which can easily be extended and called upon as a 
> library. 

I think there already exists a project with similar goals.. Rubyx. 
How are Baker different?

> Its commandline interface called 'bake' makes it easy to download, 

'bake' seems very similar to 'rake'.  Why not use Rake ?


> compile and install programs. A catalog of &quot;recipes&quot; (also called 
> the "recipe book" can be sync'd with masters and contains yaml files that 
> describe where to get a program (handles mirrors and local regions), how to 
> compile it and how to install it. 

Where does it download this information from?   Gentoo?  Bakery?
Are there a central repository?  is it distibuted over multiple-servers?

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Simon Strandgaard