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bmarkus:

--- Quote from: roberts on February 09, 2010, 10:47:00 AM ---
I am hoping to hear some positive feedback from extension makers now that we can support recursion.


--- End quote ---

Robert,

what kind of feedback are you expecting?

roberts:
Well, usually I only hear when things don't work!
In this case, I would like to hear assessments such as:

faster or slower showing some time comparisions.
easier or more difficult.
success stories, for example, "I now have LXDE working with recursive dependencies!"  ;D

bmarkus:
Well, the problem is the testing method. There are some issues.

I know which are the direct and indirect dependencies of extension created by myself and can adjust .dep files of my own extensions, but not necesarily others used in the test.

One test is to look for changes booting the system with the changed dep files. This can be done with the limitation see above for LXDE and Xfce as a good example having long and longer dep lists :)

The other test would be to see installation from the repo with appbrowser on a stock system using the new dep files. It requires not only new dep files but an online test repository. Having a test repo would be really useful for in vitro testing.

I'm ready to correct my dep files. However such test (and also the transition) requires work of all extension makers and a longer, few weeks test period.

MakodFilu:
One easy test is trying to install galculator.tcz. In fact this is the first time I noticed that it needed ttf-bitstream-vera.tcz by depending on libglade.tcz

Recursive dependency worked for 2.9rc1 and rc2 as it didn't in 2.8.1.

Moving forward, one thing that puzzled me is that when pressing 'Set TCE' button on the Control Panel, it merely complains that it is alread set, which is true but I was expecting the button to allow me to reset it. I wonder if someone expected the same. I am not talking about a feature request, but merely stating that in my particular case that button served no obvious purpose.

roberts:
"Set TCE Drive" is for new users!
Here is the typically senario...

"I booted Tiny Core, installed some apps and when rebooted they are gone!"

Typical answer:  "You need to make nested directories of tce/optional on some drive and you need to get the permissions just right!. You also need to touch a file called mydata.tgz in the tce folder"

The official answer has been: "Just use the boot code tce=hda1. It will setup everything on drive hda1. You only need to do this boot code one time"

So, beacuse this senario plays out so often, I thought I would add an option to setup the tce directories and default empty backup file when booted in cloud mode.

It is not for the creation of multiples as that can become quite confusing.

Re: Testing recursion can be done locally with tce-load -i extname.tcz

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