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The Cat's Eye Technologies Platform
Hey, if Haskell can have a Platform, why can't we? It's only fair.
This is version 0.5 of The Cat's Eye Technologies Platform, a NetBSD-based, shelf-powered, Funicular-built "distro" containing almost all of Cat's Eye Technologies' software distributions. It is an "executable anthology" of our work in a stand-alone format: a bootable disk image.
The current released version of The Cat's Eye Technologies Platform is
version 0.5. It can be built with Funicular version 0.6 and uses
shelf version 0.7 as its "packaging system". Its source can be found
at the tag 0.5
in the repository, for example
on Codeberg here.
If you want to download a pre-built disk image of The Platform, it is available on the Internet Archive here:
You can also download it via this torrent:
If you already have a copy of the pre-built disk image, and you want to know how to use it, see this document:
If you wish to build a disk image of The Platform from source files, or if you simply want to know more about its internals, read on.
Background
Each version of The Cat's Eye Technologies Platform can be thought of as a "versionset" on a collection of software distributions, "frozen" at points in their development where they are all mutually compatible.
Picking a fixed version of an operating system means that, once the versions of the supporting software and the versions of our software have been picked, it will all build and work consistently (and, we can only hope, correctly.)
Since it is not intended to be connected to a network, the need for upgrades due to security, hardware support, and "new hawtness" is diminished. Establishing a platform in this way is to bitrot what canning food is to spoilage. It also answers the question "What is a minimal set of software that'd be needed to run almost everything from Cat's Eye Technologies?"
All of the pieces of software that make up The Platform are interoperable; that is, every piece builds successfully on NetBSD 6.1.5, and those with test suites pass all of their relevant automated tests. The pieces are not, however, thoroughly tested manually.
Further Reading
Commit History
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git clone https://git.catseye.tc/The-Platform/
- Update some links. Chris Pressey 10 months ago
- Merge pull request #2 from catseye/develop-0.5 Chris Pressey (commit: GitHub) 1 year, 6 months ago
- Fix Funicular version number in README. Chris Pressey (commit: GitHub) 1 year, 6 months ago
- Major update to the CONTENTS file. Chris Pressey 1 year, 6 months ago
- Update the first half of the CONTENTS documentation. Chris Pressey 1 year, 6 months ago
- Update TODO. Chris Pressey 1 year, 6 months ago
- Add rudimentary script to list the contents in "friendly" way. Chris Pressey 1 year, 6 months ago
- Flesh out history entry for version 0.5. Chris Pressey 1 year, 6 months ago
- Update the TODO. Chris Pressey 1 year, 6 months ago
- Update license file. Chris Pressey 1 year, 6 months ago