On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:06 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 19 August 2010 16:46, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yesterday someone was talking about installing apps in fedora and how it > > was hard to figure out what to install/try b/c there were too much STUFF > > in fedora. They suggested an ‘app store’ like functionality. I explained > > that all the resources to do something like that exist in the > > infrastructure yum and friends offer now. I decided to prove that > > concept a bit. > > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/appfinder.py > > Running that generates an xml file with only the ‘apps’ defined. > > Great. Then I wrote a yum plugin to access and use this data. > > I'm kinda disappointing you didn't use (or extend) > http://github.com/hughsie/app-install as it's what suse and ubuntu > already use, and I had planned to use in Fedora. > > I've looked at the xml metadata in your repo, and it seems to provide > very little in the way of the data we actually need in GUI tools, e.g. > translations, and icons names. The app-install metadata is a gzipped > sqlite and icons file, which is super quick to query compared to > parsing and building the xml tree. The xml that appfinder generated was just a comps format file and it was just for a proof of concept. I realized after this that I don't even need it the pkgTags db that we already generate has the information needed b/c all the apps are tagged with 'Application'. So no separate program is needed to generate the app metadata at all. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
