We need a few more abstractions here for transferring apps, having multiple apps with the same company name, having one developer and multiple companies these are all real world examples, individuals are not a good identifier but company name is a little better.
On Jun 18, 2013, at 17:16, Martin Albisetti <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Loïc Minier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In the mean time, another idea came up: that we should just provide a >> default namespace, for instance net.launchpad.$user.$app. This would be >> great to ease bootstraping of new developers and would limit risks of >> small abuses/errors (e.g. inventing domain names that don't exist). > > > Yes, indeed good idea. The only part that I think isn't great is that > it implies a user would need a Launchpad account, which we very much > don't want to enforce (as per the request of the people talking to the > app development companies). > I assume the ease of using Launchpad is that it already has a registry > for user names? > Click packages doesn't talk to Launchpad at all, and I want to keep it that > way. > Can we use com.ubuntu.$user.$app? > Where $user is something specified by the developer and guaranteed to > be unique by the software center server? > > -- > Martin > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
