Now, after 6 month of developement and 1 month after the deadline, MorphUp 1.0 is finaly avail!
I want to thanks all donators for their help as well as all other people that give me feedback or supported this project in other ways...

You can get it here:
http://member.ycn.com/~hausrup/downloads/morphup/morphup-morphos.lha

..or via a installed beta-version of morphup


The final overall features
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Packagesystem
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- Packages can be grouped by type.
- Theoreticaly unlimited packages per group and unlimited dirs/files per package.
- Can handle file size up to (the DOS limitation of) 2 GB.
- Extraction of files without the need of unpacking the whole package.
- Real directory structures in packages.
- 3 different package types.
+ Full packages, to transfer a huge amount of files at once.
+ Single packages, to safe bandwitch if only a few files need to transfered.
+ Link packages, to refer to other archives.
- Full packages automaticly split into parts if they grow too larger while generation.
- Dynamic block compression based on zlib.
- Fully asyncron, any function can be aborted at any time.
+ The task-priority can be set for each asyncron function.
- Differentiation between system and application files.
- Fast installation, uninstallation, extraction and convertion routines.
- Tag-based saving to easy add things later.

GUIs
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- Multithreaded MUI applications, can handle multiple indexes at same time.
- Many editing functions like: add, remove, makedir, add recursive...
- Cut&Paste edit mode, even over different packages.
- Dynamic context menus everywhere, even in list-titels.
- Full locale support.
- Disabling of unwanted indexes, package classes and packages.
- Setable colors, styles and dateformat in all listtrees and lists.
- Controlable through application menus, contextmenus, keyboard.
- Detailed information groups for packages and files.
- Toolbar with replaceable icons.

Other
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- Configurable datatype system with MIME-support.
- Configurable data classes system, to avoid hardcoded paths.
- Configurable package classes system, to avoid hardcoded paths.
- Uses XAD system to support many types of archives in link packages.
- Packages can have a picture, any size and type is supported.
- Multilevel log system with possibility to log to disk.
- Small memory usage.





[ Edited by naTmeg on 2006/3/14 17:52 ]

Hi, great software. I tried it as an end user but unfortunately I found little or no use for it.

Unless I didn't look far enough, there is no central repository of updates, no co-ordination with any developers to all get their stuff online so it can be used by MorphUP, no listing of what software you can actually update with this program, no apparent co-operation from the MOS team that this software will be the official "OS Update" method, like AmiUpdate will be on OS4, etc...

Great idea and you've done great work, but I have been unable to actually do anything with this software as of yet. Maybe it is too early, but it would be very nice to see, for example, all MOS updates and MUI MCC updates on this, so people could find it very easy to keep an up-to-date system.

Don't get me wrong - MOS needs something like MorphUP...I just hope it can become what it needs to be. Like Apple's Software Update or Windows Update.

@HammerD

I think it is just early... without the software being available, no one will support it... Unlike Microsoft or Apple's update systems, this is a user based initiative. There is no exec making the decision company wide. I think given time and development, Morphup can gain the support from the rest of the community's developers... but give it some time first.

This is a great application. What we need now like mentioned above are more developers to support it. It needs to get pushed. I would like to see the author get in touch with the aminet maintainers and see if they will agree to support it. Its a perfect place that hosts most everything now. If that wont work then someone could agree to host every file and post the database file. I bet that could be done here on Morphzone for the new stuff with no trouble at all. Lets get to work and put a very good tool to use.

Katos1 took the words right from my mouth

Very nice app so far. Thanks to naTmeg for listening to my suggestions and implementing most of them.
I'd like to remember that the donations are still open, therefore you can still donate for a small amount of time after the program has been released, if you tested it and found it worthy.

Kind regards,
Andrea

http://www.morphos-news.de/comments.php?lg=en&cpp=1&nid=1235&page=1&cdir=2

I'm actually at a loss for a purpose of a package manager. If you take any of the Linux distros as an example, they operate in a pittiful manner - I wouldn't think for a moment that MorphUp has all the downsides of a Linux one (ie: install into a single location only, not easy to install more than one copy of the same thing), unless there is a MorphUp for multiple OSs, what use is it? I download software for my MorphOS machine from several machines (not all running MorphOS) as well as several locations (home? work? friends?).

Sorry to be negative, but I *love* the way that the standard Amiga installer works - it does what I want in the way I want it to work.

[ Edited by zhulien on 2006/3/17 13:13 ]

Sorry to be negative, but I *love* the way that the standard Amiga installer works

You've missed the point. MorphUp is not only for installing. It is also for gathering scattered software and for network update. On the other hand, maybe you love the way Installer work, but I hate writing Installer scripts. So given a choice "write Installer script or use MorphUp" I will never choose Installer.

Hi !

I would like to give money for this bounty (very usefull).
Is ezPM = MorphUP ?

Yes.

MorphUP formerly known as ezPM.

Could it be that MorphUp doesnt include the .info file of the root directory if I say "Add directory incl. Rootdirectory..." while creating a .pmi?

[ Edited by DJBase on 2006/3/25 0:31 ]

ACK!!! first day in 2 months I get the ability to reset up my morphos system to use and get goign right. I click on the link provided to DL the morphup and the link does not work :(

@zephar
you can get it here
http://member.ycn.com/~hausrup/downloads/morphup/

djbase:
no, you need to add it with 'add single files...'

Some software news:

cli-tool to rebuild morphup-index files:
http://member.ycn.com/~hausrup/downloads/morphup/morphup_tools.lha

simple e-uae gui:
http://member.ycn.com/~hausrup/downloads/rhLaunch/

...or via muCl

Yeyy.. e-uae gui rocks. Good work!

The latest 1.02 source-code is now avail under GPL:

http://member.ycn.com/~hausrup/downloads/morphup/morphup_source.lha

Nice work. I like having new stuff show up when I launch it! I just wish more developers used it to post new stuff and all the current stuff they have. Its so easy to use for insatalling applications.

How hard is it to get a package together? Talking to a few developers that I wont name say they dont want to be bothered with building up all the things they have again to be in the format MorphUp can use.

So what is up with MorphUp? Don't see "much" activity over sourceforge...

Quote:

When I last used MorphOS(long time ago), MorphUp was pretty much done as I see it. What would you need?

So why is it still in beta stage? I'd personally like it to be integrated with next MorphOS update.

Exactly what I mean, does it matter if its called beta as long as it works

But sure, to part it in with MorphOS would be nice.

Quote:

It's not in beta state. The current release fullfills all bounty-requirements, so it's a final release.

Sure, some things should be done, added or changed but i will not continue to work on it until the bounty situation has been cleard...

So what is up with the bounty? I taught everything was cleared when the bounty site was renewed.

Quote:

Personally I wouldn't mind it being added to MorphOS, but only under the condition that we get the sources under an usable license - preferably BSD, APL could also work... just no GPL please. I'm totally against adding more GPL components than absolutely required.