[openbeos] Re: Site Audit

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Dennis d'Entremont <
dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Oliver Ruiz Dorantes <
> oliver.ruiz.dorantes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hi
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>> Just people posting you a temporal URL where you can retrieve and mirror
>> the lost app.
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>>>  I didn't. I didn't download or add Zeta apps because Zeta is dead.
>>> Also, I didn't download sources.
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>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> I have no problem helping with the source too. I would be willing to create
> projects for individual apps on osdrawer for each package people send me. If
> you have the source feel free to email it to me off list with the
> appropriate info and I will create an osdrawer project. If Oliver wants to
> create a website for this all the best as well,
>

I meant to say "all the best and I would help him with it if needed"


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>>> 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.
>>>
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>> right +1
>> Tomorrow i will submit mines;)
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>> --
>> Oliver,
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>> http://urnenfeld.blogspot.com
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