On Feb 6, 2008 3:18 PM, JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The new OpenMoko Community Applications Page > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko_Community_Applications
That looks maintenance-intensive, and pretty soon would tend to be long and unwieldy (too many packages); consequently it will tend not be very trustworthy, because who's going to keep it updated? All manually? What's wrong with browsing http://projects.openmoko.org/ ? I was thinking something more like packages.gentoo.org would be nice - an index of every package that ipkg can download, with as much descriptive stuff as can be assembled from existing sources. The mere existence of the package on a known ipkg source site (or the bitbake recipe in the dev tree) should be enough to cause this "package metadata" site to be up-to-date automatically, without having to register on projects.openmoko.org plus set up the bitbake recipes plus edit this new wiki page too... oh and if you run on other distros besides OpenMoko, maybe better register the project at Freshmeat and Sourceforge too. I usually just ssh to the phone and do ipkg list | grep likely-name-fragment to see if something is available, because that way I can also find libraries and such, which would not appear on projects.openmoko.org. Is there already a more complete index like that on the web? And BTW this method would not work for finding TangoGPS, because the ipkg is on its own separate site. (Why? it must mean it's too hard to get a new ipkg into the regular repository, right?) And it's not on projects.openmoko.org either. This kind of fragmentation must mean the process is too cumbersome, and we need a master index which aggregates everything automatically so end-users have just one place to look. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
