[lsb-discuss] [packaging] LSB Package API

Denis Washington wrote: > To reignite the the initiative, I decided to design and develop a > prototype implementation of the Berlin API, most creatively named the > "LSB Package API". It is designed as a simple D-Bus interface > accompanied with an XML-based package description format. A detailed > description and the source code can be found on this page: > > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB_Package_API > > The implementation currently supports integration into RPM and dpkg; due > to its modular nature, support for more package managers could be added > later on. > > I hope this implementation will act as a starting point for resurrecting > the Berlin API process. Let us overcome the "Third-party software > installation on Linux sucks" problem and strive to a brave new world of > easily distributable Linux software! ;) Thanks for the effort! Some implementation of the Berlin API is on the task list for LSB 4. We have a few straw-men up on the LF Wiki, and now it appears we have one more. :-) I'll take a look as soon as I can. FWIW, there's some debate as to whether a honest-to-goodness API or a command-line tool would be best. The advantage of starting with an API is that a tool is then easy to derive.