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===Requirements===
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==Terms==
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'''Version''' Software provided to a customer typically has a version, describing timely variant. Typically older variants have smaller version the younger variants. Versions may be differentiated into '''Major''', '''Minor''' and '''Micro'''.
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===Product===
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A Product is a set of bits, e.g. an ISO image or a self extracting exe.
  
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;Release: Is a set of features (an application) to be made available to a consumer.
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A product may be described by
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* the source code to be used (e.g. a CVS repository and a CVS tag), this is the products '''code base''',
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* it's features, as well as the brand and the localization to be included, and the configuration used while building, this is the products '''variant''',
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* it's relationship to previous products, this may be something as "patch", "update", "respin" or "add-on", this is the products '''type''',
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* the format of its bits, e.g. "ISO image", "self extracting archive" or "APT repository", this is the products '''format'''.
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* the target platform (architecture and Operating System), e.g. Solaris Sparc, Linux x86 or Windows x64, this is the products '''platform'''.
  
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;Variant: A variant of a Release ads or removes some features.
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SO8u9Solx86-CD = SRC680_m236, [{StarOffice}, {Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw}, {English, German}], Update-to(SO8u1), ISO, Solaris/x86
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;Product: A product is type of how a Release is to be provided. A Release may be provided as
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* a patch - generally only applicable to a limited set of Releases (sharing the major and minor version numbers), seeking to be small in size,
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;Medium: The bits of a Products are provided via a medium. These may be a concrete medium like
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===Version===
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Software provided to a customer typically has a version, describing timely variant. Typically older variants have smaller version the younger variants. Versions may be differentiated into '''Major''', '''Minor''' and '''Micro'''.
  
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==Requirements==
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===Development===
 
Support for Changes:
 
Support for Changes:
 
* updated package(s)
 
* updated package(s)
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* move file(s)
 
* move file(s)
  
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===Program Management===
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In a perfect world, program management would be able to create any kind of product, only depending on business needs, not at all restricted by technical constraints.
  
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===Package System Capabilities===
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Program Management basically mediates between marketing / market requirements and the pool available technologies.
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==Package Systems==
  
 
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Links:
 
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http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372866.aspx
 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372866.aspx
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==Constraints==

Revision as of 10:11, 8 November 2007

Terms

Product

A Product is a set of bits, e.g. an ISO image or a self extracting exe.

A product may be described by

  • the source code to be used (e.g. a CVS repository and a CVS tag), this is the products code base,
  • it's features, as well as the brand and the localization to be included, and the configuration used while building, this is the products variant,
  • it's relationship to previous products, this may be something as "patch", "update", "respin" or "add-on", this is the products type,
  • the format of its bits, e.g. "ISO image", "self extracting archive" or "APT repository", this is the products format.
  • the target platform (architecture and Operating System), e.g. Solaris Sparc, Linux x86 or Windows x64, this is the products platform.

E.g. 

SO8u9Solx86-CD = SRC680_m236, [{StarOffice}, {Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw}, {English, German}], Update-to(SO8u1), ISO, Solaris/x86

Version

Software provided to a customer typically has a version, describing timely variant. Typically older variants have smaller version the younger variants. Versions may be differentiated into Major, Minor and Micro.

Requirements

Development

Support for Changes:

  • updated package(s)
  • (automatically) remove package(s)
  • add package(s)
  • rename package(s)
  • remove file(s)
  • add file(s)
  • move file(s)

Program Management

In a perfect world, program management would be able to create any kind of product, only depending on business needs, not at all restricted by technical constraints.

Program Management basically mediates between marketing / market requirements and the pool available technologies.

Package Systems

.deb/apt

Relations:

  • "depends"
  • "recommends"
  • "conflicts"
  • "suggests"
  • "replaces"
  • "pre-depends"
  • "breaks"

Tags:

  • "priority"
  • "section"

Features:

  • "manual install"

.rpm

Relations:

  • "provides"
  • "requires"

.msi

Features:

  • installation on demand
  • advertisement ("assigning" / "publishing")
  • customization
  • patching / updating
  • usage metrics on features - automagic de-installation
  • Incorporated installations == ? "dependencies" ?
  • Resiliency
  • User / Machine wide installation
  • Installer functions (API for MSI)
  • Administrative Installation

Links: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372866.aspx

Constraints

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