Funnily enough, I was just thinking about posting about something very similar to this a couple of days ago... <br><br>I definitely agree that <a href="http://opkg.org">opkg.org</a> is broken in many ways, and impossible to fix atm. And I think some kind of application database is very important.<br>
<br>The model I was thinking about was actually more like the wine application database : <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/">http://appdb.winehq.org/</a> - I think the model actually works pretty well, since in theory pretty much any X application will run on the FR, but only some will be usable. <br>
<br>I wasn't able to find out in a quick scan if the code for the wine appdb is available, but I suspect it is - maybe we should just use something like that as a base?<br><br>I definitely think we need something web-based, with the capability for voting, comments, etc. If I were to do it, from scratch, I'd probably use django, but I think it's worth exploring other options first. Are their other open source app databases we might be able to reuse?<br>
<br>I'm not sure about tying it directly to the bb files - it's not clear to me that the formating and information appropriate for a web-based db is the same as what you'd want in a bb file... <br><br>Warren<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Risto H. Kurppa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:risto@kurppa.fi">risto@kurppa.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Opkg.org seems to be owned by the author so if the author is not<br>
co-operative (cannot be reached, doesn't answer e-mails or jabber)<br>
there's not much we or OM can do about it.<br>
<br>
Summa summarum:<br>
<br>
* Looks like there are people around who support the idea of showroom.<br>
* Showroom, not a repository<br>
* Read the data from packages in the repositories of the distributions<br>
* Allow filtering of packages based on existing desktop files and categories<br>
* Allow social features like comments & voting on the web site<br>
* Also create a client for FR to search & install apps<br>
<br>
Did I miss something?<br>
<br>
Anyone with the skills around willing to work on this? I'd say the one<br>
who has the skills can decide the technology, be it git+django or<br>
svn+php or whatever, as long as it's possible for more than one people<br>
to contribute.<br>
<br>
r<br>
<br>
<br>
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Reyes Samblas<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">Martinez<<a href="mailto:david@tuxbrain.com">david@tuxbrain.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 2009/8/21 Risto H. Kurppa <<a href="mailto:risto@kurppa.fi">risto@kurppa.fi</a>>:<br>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Sebastian<br>
>> Krzyszkowiak<<a href="mailto:seba.dos1@gmail.com">seba.dos1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> On 8/21/09, David Reyes Samblas Martinez <<a href="mailto:david@tuxbrain.com">david@tuxbrain.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Just an idea, why not use the bb file and source files as README,<br>
>>>> INSTALL, Changelog, and .desktop files if exist as source for this<br>
>>>> showroom?<br>
>><br>
>>> ++ from me! Some way for browse repository (doesn't matter if from WWW<br>
>>> or from app on Neo, or even both at once) could be IMO the best<br>
>>> showroom. It won't be outdated, app authors won't have to package<br>
>>> their apps (as now they do, which is strange ;x).<br>
>><br>
>> I agree, the point is to make it easy and appealing to find cool apps.<br>
>> But I wouldn't like to be able to see descriptions of all libraries<br>
>> but apps that one can use to do cool stuff.<br>
> the existance or not of desktop file can be used as filter to not<br>
> include libs/console apps if you don't want them, (maybe others are<br>
> searching for a lib and can be useful to include them)<br>
>><br>
>> If it can be automated this far, it'd be great! Both WWW and app for<br>
>> Openmoko would be nice to have. And somehow - this again should be<br>
>> distro-undependant so that it can be easily adapted to work on<br>
>> openwrt, shr, om2009 - maybe even on Debian and Gentoo?!<br>
> I'm not familiar with the openwrt and Debian(There is a text file with<br>
> descriptions of the repo, isn't) it the Package system but if they<br>
> have a description field I don't know why it shoudn't be included, the<br>
> work will be to match all those sources of infomation and find a good<br>
> balance to show attractive/useful information ,<br>
><br>
> A other idea regarding this is use a filter to show all, or just<br>
> one/few distros, and when entering the app description show on what<br>
> distribution is included an in what version.<br>
><br>
> Yes its no easy and maybe we must start easy with just one package<br>
> system (read SHR ;) ) and then move one adding more distros and<br>
> finding good ways to merge all this information to this showing room<br>
> system.<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> r<br>
>><br>
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