On 6 Jul., 16:51, Stefan Bidigaray <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:51 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > as a GNUstep AppStore? > > I.e. a downloader App that looks for new versions and offers to > > download/install them from the links to binaries or sources in the > > SWI? > > I like the idea, but I wonder how that would work with the package > management model in *nix.
If done correctly, they don't interfere. And, I have not seen any package management system of any Linux distro that provides more than some basic packages like Base, GUI, Gorm. But I may be wrong. > > I mostly use it as a way to find new applications... I then go to the > website and find out if the version in the SWI is the latest. My experience > with it is that it gets out-dated rather fast. Well, it is a collaborative tool - it is not intelligent by itself. It is not a robot or something. There is a simple "Click here to fix it!" link in SWI. So, please if you find a newer version of anything, please add. You can do it as user as well as author. > While on on the subject of thing I don't like about the SWI... I also don't > like how it sorts by last updated. I really don't need to see the previous > update of GNUstep-back (for example). In my opinion, it should just replace > the entry and move it to top, so that you can't ever have the same > application showing in the same page. You can sift through versions inside > the application's page (like you can already do now). Hm. I am not sure if this easily fits into the concept. It is not just a simple list of apps showing the latest version of each one and throwing away the older ones. It is designed as a newsticker / feed where you see all messages sorted by date. If someone makes small incremental comments, you will see several to the same topic. I also think that it is a matter of traffic. The archetype it tries to follow is www.versiontracker.com which has the same effect - but approx. 30 new entries per day so that you simply don't see the older ones. But everything can be changed - it is open source and volunteers to work are welcome. Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
