[openbeos] Re: Site Audit

  • From: "Oliver Ruiz Dorantes" <oliver.ruiz.dorantes@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:45:19 +0200

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.


>
> 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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