[openbeos] Re: Site Audit

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Oliver Ruiz Dorantes <
oliver.ruiz.dorantes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
>>
>> Not sure I understand what you mean... I want to try to get away from
>> people submitting their own mirrors and links to files. If everything is all
>> in one place, even if it goes down, it would be a lot easier to retrieve
>> than if files are scattered all over the web.
>>
>
> Just people posting you a temporal URL where you can retrieve and mirror
> the lost app.
>
>
>>  I didn't. I didn't download or add Zeta apps because Zeta is dead. Also,
>> I didn't download sources.
>>
>
> Thats a mistake. All bin only app is unmaintanable and will become unuseful
> as soon as Haiku switches to gcc4 or further evolutions. Maybe few(10%?) of
> the apps you saved had its sources, but these are the only ones that have a
> choice to stay in the future for Haiku.
>
>
>> There are very few sources available. I thought long and hard about this
>> one. I don't want Haikuware to become a repository for source code.
>>
>
> Its not that it has to be in haikuware. The code could be included with the
> package, or an osdrawer project could be opened for each of them. "Where" is
> not the question now, just having them in a safe place before more websites
> are gone, and that valueable codebase lost forever.
> If it cannot be in Haikuware. We need to have somewhere with as much as
> beos app sources avaliable, not in terms of repository thats for OsDrawer.
> But in terms ensure all beos apps that were opensourced are safe and can be
> maintained and reinserted in Haiku for the future.
> So if someone moreover the bin of karl's list *has the sources... SPAM me
> please. *I might find some time for a website for this.
>

That list is of the files that *couldn't be retrieved*...  Haikuware has all
the files BeBits has (almost) plus the ones that were recovered from
alternative sources. Therefore, it might be easier to start at the files
Haikuware has and wait until the 'not found' list is finished.

>
>
>>
>> But the easiest way would be for me to invite you to the GoogleDoc, that
>> way, as a collaborator we all have access to the same file, and can edit the
>> file, i.e delete missing files off of the spreadsheet once they're found.
>>
>
> right +1
> Tomorrow i will submit mines;)
>
> --
> Oliver,
>
> http://urnenfeld.blogspot.com
>



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Karl vom Dorff
B.Sc (Hons) Biology, (German minor)

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