1 Introduction

The Oz Package Manager is a utility to create binary Oz packages and help users install them. Source Oz packages require the user to compile and install them. Even if these operations are quite simple most of the time, the user must have some knowledge of the commands involved and worse on Windows platforms this can be very tricky. As most users just want to install the package to use it, it is easier to provide precompiled and ready to install package. Ozpm provides a command line based user interface for creating and managing binary packages, and a graphical user interface to easily download and install binary packages that are declared in the Mogul database.

Ozpm provides two user interfaces :

• Command line oriented interface for creating packages and basic operations on them. This interface can be used in batch programs for complex automatic management of packages. This interface is dedicated to package creators.

• Graphical user interface for installing or removing installed package. This interface is linked to the Mogul database so that users can easily see all available Oz packages declared in Mogul, and select which one he wants to install. This interface is dedicated to package users.

The documentation will be split in two parts, one for each interface.

• Chapter 2 Command line interface of Ozpm for creating binary packages and managing them.

• Chapter 3 Graphical user interface for installing packages from Mogul or uninstalling them.