Hi gobo-devel, I skipped Saturday's IRC discussion as I am not a Gobo developer and I only use Rootless. I just reviewed the IRC log posted by Jonas.
Regarding a potential web-app to view and compare the latest package/Recipe and repository versions of specific Programs: this version-compare information seems to me to be a logical fit with the other information already provided at recipes.gobolinux.org. The best specification of a version-comparer seems to be this line by LodeRunner: (10:50:49 PM) LodeRunner: "package x: latest version is A, our latest recipe is B written by FOO, our latest package is C packed by BAR, the 015 repo is using D packed by BAZ added by QUX" Does anyone have any suggestions or additions to this specification? For example, would you like to be able to filter also by milestone (i.e., Base, Desktop, Apps - assuming that such milestones are used and someone creates lists of which Programs are members of each milestone). Also, what is the authoritative information source for each of the following? A (latest Program version - this third party info might be hard to get?) B (latest Recipe version) C (latest package version) BAR (the packager of C - is this contained in a file somewhere inside the package tarball?) QUX (the adder of package to the repository) Are there currently different repositories for different releases (013, 014, 014.1, etc) of GoboLinux? If so, what are they and what is the correct way to query their contents? At present recipes.gobolinux.org is drawing its information from whatever source I happened to find when I was coding it, which might be a secondary cache instead of the primary authoritative source. If I am going to add version-compare functionality to recipes.gobolinux.org, I might as well go back and clean up the recipe viewer so that it is getting all its information from the proper authoritative sources. Also, can someone please explain what System/Index is? There has been some discussion of it recently, but I have not been able to figure out what it is/does. Thanks! -mpb _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
