Robby Findler wrote:
All of the database functionality in the server is separated out, so
it shoudl not be too hard to add a web-based interface to it (see
db.ss in iplt/planet/).
That looks like a database for a local cache of planet, but I was
talking about getting a list of all planet packages from the PLT planet
server.
Robby
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafk...@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
Matthias Felleisen wrote:
On May 18, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
Just to be clear, I essentially agree with everything you've written.
We do need something better and tool support for it. A GUI that helps
the user's control the upgrades would be a great idea. (IF you were to
write one I'd be happy to take it!)
I am still wondering whether drscheme could support a GUI that
shows what's available at Planet and even compares the versions
there and in your cache. Then a simple 'click' could warn you
of potential problems before you install the latest version.
I started a little gui for this last week. Here is a functional demo:
http://planet.plt-scheme.org/display.ss?package=planet-manager.plt&owner=kazzmir
Obviously needs a lot of work. One major problem is the planet database is
not query-able. Right now I'm doing html screenscraping by reading
http://planet.plt-scheme.org.
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