Zero Install - Standard open way to install software on different platforms

[netnomad]

hi friends,

Zero Install is a great concept,
perhaps comparable to the port-collections in bsd,
but you can use them for linux, mac, win etc.
http://0install.net/
some concepts are very interesting.
give it a look and perhaps a try.

thank you for your help.

[tinypoodle]

This topic has been moved to Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge.
This has nothing to do with extensions.

Hmm, IMHO "zeroinstall-injector" would meet requirements for an extension request more than sufficiently, if only the OP would have been more specific...

In fact an extension was (and is still in repo) available up to Core 3.x, so perhaps anyone who knows could shed any light of the reason why it is not in current 4.x repo

- Packages are available for all major Linux distros

   http://0install.net/install-linux.html

- It is an optional dependency providing various functions of at least one extension existing in repo (Rox Filer) 

[gerald_clark]

The decentralized distribution philosophy of zero install seems to be at odds with the tightly controlled philosophy of Core, where links to extensions outside of the repo are not allowed.
Perhaps I misunderstood the intentions of the poster though.  I  did not read it as a request for an extension so much as an invitation discuss the philosophy, and I thought that fit better in the lounge.
If any of the other moderators see it differently, please move it to a more suitable location.

[Rich]

Hi gerald_clark
As worded, I'm inclined to agree. It does sound like an invitation to discuss Zero Install and belongs in the
lounge. If the OP states this as an extension request, it can be moved to Extension Requests at that time.

[tinypoodle]

The decentralized distribution philosophy of zero install seems to be at odds with the tightly controlled philosophy of Core, where links to extensions outside of the repo are not allowed.

One could see a parallel with perl's CPAN... And e.g. literal links show up in Rox Filer when clicking on certain buttons.

Perhaps I misunderstood the intentions of the poster though.  I  did not read it as a request for an extension so much as an invitation discuss the philosophy, and I thought that fit better in the lounge.

Given that I had read the post shortly after it appeared, I had assumed a not very specific/targeted extension request, but that based on subforum posted in.
In hindsight I have to admit that would I have read the post after it had already been moved, I might have looked at it in the same way as you did, gerald_clark.

I guess we were both filling the blanks the OP left about his intentions from a different angle.

[tinypoodle]

As an illustration:

[netnomad]

hi friends,

actually my post was just an extension-request.

thank you for your commitment to tinycore.

[hiro]

I thought that's what xdg-open is for

[tinypoodle]

zero-install.tcz has xdg-utils.tcz (which includes xdg-open) as dep.