[haiku-development] Re: Friendlier Optional Package installation
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:55:01 +0200 (CEST)
----- "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> Ryan Leavengood<leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Actually I have an idea. Who in the C++ camp will take on the
> > challenge of making a C++ package selector while the HTML camp make
> > one with Pete's method?
>
> Great idea, since we have so many resources to spare.
+1
> If a dedicated (mini) web-server is needed for providing a package
> manager, it's a local experience only, and sites like haikuware won't
> benefit from it at all, while the users don't gain anything either.
> Oh, and if you want to write a software for the real package
> management, you would also need to access its C++ based API.
IMO, the only web integration that would be worth it is accepting an
URI scheme to name packages like apt: for Debian/Ubuntu.
Then it's easy to generate an html file with links to each
installable package if needed.
> Writing a C++ UI isn't really that hard; the only advantage I give web
> UIs is that they allow for more effects with less work.
But we don't want effects, we want usefulness :)
François.
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