On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 14:17 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > >> Sure, I understand where you're coming from. As you see from >> app-install schema version 1 it really was least common denominator. >> But version 2, which is in progress now, features application >> screenshot previews (that ubuntu wanted) and application ratings >> (which we all wanted). Having an extensible format allows us to add >> the features in a cross-distro way without re-inventing schemas and >> UI. > > First off, I think this is a great idea and very much needed, thanks for > working on it. > > On the cross-distro front, is Canonical / Ubuntu officially involved in > this and expecting to move to it in future, or are you just working > 'unofficially' with some Ubuntu community people and if anything it'll > wind up being an unofficial alternative for Ubuntu users? I don't follow Canonical's news, but I believe that they have their own tool for this which is a big deal feature for their next release. So I'm not sure they would ever adopt this. -- Fedora 13 (www.pembo13.com) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
