[MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

[Alexey Khoroshilov]

On 09/09/2010 12:48 PM, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> ext Thiago Macieira<thiago at kde.org>  writes:
>    
>> Requiring a .noarch.rpm to wrap around a zip file sounds redundant to
>> me.
>>      
> A *.wgt is not just a zip file, it contains some package-style meta data
> as well, such as a description, author information, a version, and even
> 'feature requirements', which resemble dependencies:
>
>      http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/
>
> Thus, a *.wgt can be automatically repackaged as a *.rpm.  We do this in
> Harmattan, and it seems to generally work ok.
>
>    
This automation can be done either on client side as part of 
installation process or on server side within app store. I guess you are 
speaking about server side transformation?

Alexey Khoroshilov,
ISPRAS / Linux Foundation