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Common Microcontroller Software Interface Standard - Pack(age) based distribution system
https://open-cmsis-pack.github.io/Open-CMSIS-Pack-Spec/
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Self-hosted Pack Index Service #261

Closed jankap closed 8 months ago

jankap commented 9 months ago

Hi, https://open-cmsis-pack.github.io/Open-CMSIS-Pack-Spec/main/html/createPackPublish.html#cp_KeilComPack mentions that ARM and IAR offers Pack Index Service that can be queried to get cmsis-packs. I think it's like a package registry, is that assumption correct?

How can we create such a service on our own? Ideally using GitLab's (generic?) package registry features. Is there a way?

Thanks.

jkrech commented 9 months ago

Your assumption is correct, a pack index service does maintain and host a file index.pidx list/registry of all publicly hosted packs. The question is what is the motivation for you to create a separate/independent list/registry. If you want to have your packs added to the registry you can provide a url where you host your pidx file and we can add it (see Keil.vidx) below.

Here is the index maintained by Arm: https://www.keil.com/pack/index.pidx This index is constructed from this vendor index file: https://www.keil.com/pack/Keil.vidx and https://www.keil.com/pack/Keil.pidx

There is a utility that takes a .vidx as input and from that compiles an index.pidx. This may not be perfect (Version 0.0.3) but we are happy to take feedback and contributions.

I am not familiar with the GitLab package registry feature, therefore I cannot tell whether there is a way to use it by any means but I am afraid this is not compatible.

jkrech commented 8 months ago

@jankap , please reopen if you think this issue has not been addressed sufficiently.