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For Jifty:

* It should be possible for Jifty's developers to package bin/jifty as a 
  single platform-specifc "runnable" application, including lib/ share/ and all
  non-core perl dependencies. (+ libraries?)



For any Jifty application:

* It should be possible for an end-user to package the source code of a Jifty 
  application as a single platform-specific "runnable" application.

* Ideally, it should be possible to turn a packaged application into 
  an unpacked copy of the application's source code and dependent libraries.

* It should be possible to install a Jifty application on a local disk 
  such that multiple instances of the application can run with only
  a site_config.yml file. (or without it)

* It should be possible for an end user of one of these installed
  applications to snapshot the application and all its assets, internal
  libraries and dependencies to a private directory)

    In all cases:
        * --with-deps includes the installed versions of our dependencies.
        * plugins are treated as CPAN dists for the purposes of dependency management

    jifty package --file /tmp/myapp.exe --with-deps
        * Takes multiple forms of targets
        * Defaults to the zipped form
        * --file is the path of the output file 

    jifty dist --with-deps
        * make a source distribution of this application, suitable for handing to a developer
    jifty isolate  --with-deps 
        * needs a better name 
        * Pull in all dependencies, as well as jifty.

    jifty install/uninstall
        * some sort of management. will also work on plugins



# A dist blib builder

# A dist blib packager (->zip with a makefile.pl - it works as a par and as a dist)

# Package multiple dists as a single dist.

# Pony: an automatic deps-writer that will design a list of deps for 
the systemwide currently installed modules.


# Must include shared libs (expat, svn, etc)

# Some way to deal with systemwide shared libs, like Pg

# an alien extractor that analyzes already-built XS libs (in either blib/ or sitelib)
with platform-specific tools (ldd, xtools, etc) and pull in shared libraries, similar
to how Alien::* currentl does it in a case-by-case basis.

# A dist blib upgrader

# A cpan workalike for jifty dists

# An installation scheme for

    {$INSTALL_DIR,$APP_DIR}/share/jifty/deps/{`archname`,noarch}


# one blib/ directory for the tuple of
    (dist, version, `arch` or "noarch" , perl version?)

# an @INC populator     
    pushes a glob for arch-independent  (rename this: blib-noarch/*
    pushes a glob for per-arch libs  blib-`arch`/*