Hi,
You can read the SWI contents from
http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/plist.php
as a Property List (NSArray arrayWithContentsOfURL) and display /
filter / search
it in a convenient way (NSTableView). Double-Clicking could take the
URL and
load the files (NSURLConnection)...
Should not be very complex. Volunteers?
When we first discussed SWI (years ago) the concept of an "app store"
was already there, long before Apple put it in on the Macintosh.
We have an intermediate problem which would be an installer and/or a way
of building packages from source.
One of the never implemented apps of GAP is an installer. The two things
should work together.
Since our "Browser" is called "Vespucci", we could find a name going in a
similar direction. Named after Someone/thing who provides many useful
things...
Some (not filtered) ideas:
* Warehouse.app
* Horreum.app (Latin)
* Fugger.app (14th century trade imperium, Germany)
* ACME.app
* Everything.app
...
Fondaco.app (the Ventian trade houses... the german had one too :)
Fugger.app is nice :)
Hansa.app
Negotium.app
...
Who takes the soccer ball to keep it rolling?
Maybe a small pet project.
Since I think we will never have a single "application project", we
need some sort
of well maintained "App distributions" which have a quality gate and
cherry pick
all the good apps out there. Etoile and GAP are such "productivity and
user
experience" projects and SWI is a techical tool to support this
(probably not the
best one, but better than none - and see above)...
Yes, that is a problem. This is where SWI can be an umbrella over
different projects.
Etoile or GAP can't be "the app store" as some suggests, since the way
they guarantee the quality of the software is by maintaining it. I can't
speak for Etoile, but GAP doesn't incorporate "all apps" unmaintained
out there for different reasons. If they don't fit its paradigm is the
official answer. But there is also the burden of actually maintaining
it. GAP goes beyond a mere testing.
Riccardo
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