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| Brandon | WisgetI just thought of something, if a user downloads a package through our HTML manager and then installs it manually in Wisget, we will have no META DATA. So we need package authors to install that info in a text file in a zip, and instead of making them enter it again when the add it to the database, can we have the PHP read the file in the ZIP? (and of course it will have to readname the zip to NAME OF PACKAGE.zip) to avoid getting 20 packages of the same app on my server. | 2008-10-15 | 7:04 PM |
| Todd | Re:WisgetYou can do what Debian does: upload the information with the package outside of the package and into an updated list. | 2008-10-15 | 9:34 PM |
| Brandon | Re:WisgetYeah, but most people won't have DOS on-line, and there packages will need to be in the manager. So how do we get the list? It has to be undated with the package. | 2008-10-16 | 1:38 PM |
| Todd | Re:WisgetWell I know apt-get update downloads the list and can list all packages in a database. It isn't accurate if the list is old but it could be a way to work from there. | 2008-10-16 | 2:11 PM |
| Brandon | Re:WisgetYeah, if you have no net and install a ZIP not on the list then we have no data on it. We need that data! | 2008-10-16 | 3:55 PM |
| Todd | Re:WisgetSo you want to track what ZIP files they install? | 2008-10-16 | 6:31 PM |
| Brandon | Re:WisgetYa, we need to! If you go on-line and press Update I need to know what is there! Also we need them listed for Proobs to work. | 2008-10-16 | 6:48 PM |
| Todd | Re:WisgetBut why not store it on the computer and have it compared that way? | 2008-10-16 | 6:51 PM |
| Brandon | Re:WisgetOk so people install apps 2 ways:
1-from internet
2-from zip files
There will be a database on the users hard drive with data of all installed apps, a similar one of all the apps on the on-line server.
All I'm saying with this post is that the data for each app (version,description) should be in the zip, and when its developer uploads it the file is read and added to the database.
Then if you install the 2nd way, with an individual zip, not on-line it will read the same file and add it to the local database. | 2008-10-16 | 7:07 PM |
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