On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Warren Baird<[email protected]> wrote: > Funnily enough, I was just thinking about posting about something very > similar to this a couple of days ago...
So there are more of us who want something like this and are not happy with the current solution. Good to hear! > The model I was thinking about was actually more like the wine application > database : http://appdb.winehq.org/ - 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. http://wiki.winehq.org/Licensing says it's GPL and the code is available there. True, existing solutions would be nice to use, one option is to check getdeb.net, I think that's very close to what we need. - support for screenshot - support for different Ubuntu versions & architecture (=distributions in our case) - voting system included I don't know anything about the backend how much work it'd be to convert it to read .bb files or something but the frontend looks promising to me. The code is available here as GPL: http://wiki.getdeb.net/WebDevelopment (well, see https://code.launchpad.net/getdeb-web ) I visited their IRC channel (#getdeb) and was told it'll not be maintained, they'll move to a new engine at some stage: https://launchpad.net/apt-portal - some features still missing like internationalization and comments. Rui: well done trying to call! And I also agree that the name opkg.org is not the best one as opk is used in other platforms and other formats are used on FR too.. FR-apps frapps I think it's ok to limit us to only FR as it's a unique device at least for now but maybe in the future there'd be a need to support other linux phones too..? Maybe I wouldn't rule Android out too, if people want to add Android apps there and the file formats etc support it.. r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
