As Debian has gone from large to huge, actions operating on the package
database have gotten slower and slower, so it's best to do them as few
times as possible.
Here we've got the trivial optimization. A more complete optimization
requires a refactoring of code, and we're kind of in a 1.3.0 "freeze",
so let's not do that here and now.
Closes#11 and #13. As mentioned in #11, support for Ubuntu should
return in the future, but not explicitly. Rather, the core of A2SERVER
itself ashould be made to run on any OS distribution for which our
requirements are met.
The goal is that any OS-specific details should be part of OS-specific
packaging or handled by the user (editing MOTD/issue files, etc.) We
can handle those details on Debian systems because we know how to do
that when packaging for Debian. Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. packages will have
to make their own tweaks. This commit doesn't do all of that, but it
does mean there's one fewer things we need to worry about during the
transition.
Reflowed the scripts (mostly) according to vim's autoindent engine.
Also added vim modelines so that people who are familiar with them can
configure their environment for A2SERVER's conventions. Also removed
trailing whitespace from lines and files while I was at it to make git
happier about various things.
An unusual quirk of git is that it tends not to like trailing whitespace
at the end of lines, and trailing blank lines at the end of a file. It
messes with the word diffs a bit I think. Anyway, it's easily removed,
so I've removed it.
Ivan's precompiled binaries of nulib2, The Unarchiver, and netatalk for
Debian and Raspbian aren't going to be part of this repository, so I've
reverted to hardcoding Ivan's server as the source of those things.
We could perhaps download and compile nulib2 and The Unarchiver, and
we'd have to if the script doesn't recognize Debian/Raspbian. Ideally
for those systems we'd download .deb packages with full and proper
dependency tracking, but we'd still need source for use on non-Debian
systems, should we ever develop support for those. (OS X is a good
candidate for such a system?)
Added shell variable A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL which allows you to replace
Ivan's server with another URL for development. If unset, scripts will
default to "http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/" as usual.
This will not allow you to use these scripts for development directly,
and in fact may have been over-zealous in removing hardcoded ivanx
links. Also, Ivan's webserver has a slightly different layout than this
repository because I haven't tried to make this an apache directory
structure full of mixed HTML, scripts, .htaccess files, etc.
This reflects Ivan Drucker's current A2SERVER scripts as of 2015-Oct-01,
version 1.24. These are unmodified and cannot be directly used yet. A
later patch will begin correcting that, but a baseline is important.
