Re: [pearweb] Managing releases

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 00:51:13 +0200, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: >I'm in the stage of building the package browser for the pear web, and >would want to get some feedback about the way to manage releases. Now >the system is based in a xml rpc service, which will receive a package >file and will store it in the server (and logically will update the >needed tables). That's the code yet written by Stig. With that we could >list the different releases in the web and make them avaible to >download. In addition to this web thingie I once thought about creating a PHP-GTK application, which also uses the RPC service to receive the package information etc. and which is able to install the packages (much like the web interface, but for use on your desktop). But there's still _much_ more on my todo list before I'll start thinking more detailed about this ;-). >- The ability to build a package browser, that could show all the files >of a packages (including php source code highlighting and documentation) >directly from the web, without forcing user to download/install it. Sounds good to me. >- The ability to show package dependencies in the web. I think this could be integrated in the package browser you mentioned above, can't it? >Disadvantages: space IMO space isn't the probleme here: | bash-2.05$ hostname | pb1.pair.com | bash-2.05$ df -m | Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on | [...] | /dev/ad0s1f 24441 6030 16456 27% /usr | [...] | bash-2.05$ 16 GB should be enough for the first time :-). - Martin