Better native-client updates management (homebrew, packages)

[srustamo]

Current installation instructions and process of 'native-client' install/update is cumbersome. Is there any way to update the native-client using known package management tools, e.g. 'homebrew' on mac, 'chocolatey' on win?

[jsbien]

What about making it an official Debian package? Cf. today's post at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972429 by Barak A. Pearlmutter.

[andy-portmen]

I am working on a deb package. You can give it a try; https://github.com/andy-portmen/native-client/releases/tag/0.9.2

[andy-portmen]

What about making it an official Debian package?

I am still working to make sure the Debian package has no security issues; #93

[andy-portmen]

Current installation instructions and process of 'native-client' install/update is cumbersome

I am trying to keep the native side as simple as possible. Almost all the functionalities are handled on the extension side, even the native node script that is supposed to get executed. Currently, the only reason for updating this client is to support new extensions or occasionally update the node executable.

[andy-portmen]

'homebrew' on mac, 'chocolatey' on win?

I am working on a deb package for Linux. As far as I know, Homebrew cannot be used to copy files to the home directory, so it is not useful for copying metafiles to the browser-specific paths. I don't have any experience with chocolatey. Maybe someone can help.

[jsbien]

I have very little experience with Debian packages, just from time to time I produce the new version of our djview4poliqarp (always with just dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b -rfakeroot). I'm afraid your *.deb is not done "the Debian way". So I submitted a request for package:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973700
I hope this will help somehow.