El 14/12/10 01:14, C Anthony Risinger dijo: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Tomás Acauan Schertel > <tschertel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You've done a great job Anthony. Your app is a all-in-one! > > Our focus is (was) create a better AUR, with new features and using > > other platform (from php to django). I think your focus is a little > > different, isn't? > > well, the immediate focus is to create a better AUR, feature > complete++ to the current one, but with the additional goal of > eventually decoupling it from a client-server model, and ultimately > from archlinux altogether. i have some ideas about a 100% > "distributed distribution", but that's neither here nor there :-). > > so no, not really. i intend to create a sweet AUR. the AUR really > stood out when i came to archlinux, and set it apart from others; it's > highly related to my own research and interests, and in general just > needs an overhaul. > > the benefit to the pyjs approach is 100% client side operation, so it > can run without online access. additionally, the python-DOM version > (or the pyjs version if proxying thru a local daemon) could > potentially direct install from the website, leading to "install now" > functionality. lastly, python means you could use the same lang to > write the front end and the backend, and communicate using JSON > messages. > > but yeah in the medium run, i'd like to see archlinux.org function as > a simple state tracker, linking users together, and letting them share > and manage their own PKGBUILD repositories. in the long run, > archlinux.org is dropped altogether, and the AUR is completely P2P. > > as a professional web applications developer by day, i can vouch that > writing webapps requires knowledge of about 4 different haphazardly > implemented "standards", requiring far to much painfully acquired > knowledge. by using a library like pyjamas, you allow anyone with > python experience to write incredibly functional plugins/modules, and > share maintenance load. django is a great platform, but after i > discovered pyjamas about 1yr ago, i haven't looked back, and am > convinced that compiler technology is the only sane way to develop > complex and maintainable web-based applications. > > C Anthony > p2p-aur \o/ -- Salud! Nicolás Reynolds, xmpp:fauno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx omb:http://identi.ca/fauno blog:http://selfdandi.com.ar/ gnu/linux user #455044 http://librecultivo.org.ar http://parabolagnulinux.org
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