Re: Central GNUstep software index?

2008-04-20 Thread Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller
Am 18.04.2008 um 13:04 schrieb David Wetzel: we had this already, and it was dropped in favour of the wiki. Oh really? In the same feature set? Why was it dropped and not done both? Both approaches have their benefits and drawbacks: Wiki: + easy to use for a deep description, including

Re: Central GNUstep software index?

2008-04-20 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Hey Francisco, This would require that all of the various maintainers agree to upload their software to one given site which is simply not the way it works anywhere. I believe that what we need is something like what we already have on the wiki, but more focused. A central registry which

Re: Central GNUstep software index?

2008-04-20 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 20.04.2008 um 06:58 schrieb Francisco Oltra: wouldn't it be great to have the equivalent of the BSD port system but based on the GNUstep system instead of a specific OS, Yet another distribution system? An ew distribution system working on at least a dozen different OSs/Linux

Re: Central GNUstep software index?

2008-04-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I believe that what we need is something like what we already have on the wiki, but more focused.   A central registry which contains links to where you can download the software... something like Version Tracker, I suppose. Yes, that is my proposal with the Software Index. It works quite

Re: Central GNUstep software index?

2008-04-20 Thread Francisco Oltra
On 20-Apr-08, at 10:00 AM, Gregory John Casamento wrote: Hey Francisco, This would require that all of the various maintainers agree to upload their software to one given site which is simply not the way it works anywhere. True, but it doesn't have to work that way. I was thinking more

Re: Central GNUstep software index?

2008-04-20 Thread Francisco Oltra
On 20-Apr-08, at 10:41 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 20.04.2008 um 06:58 schrieb Francisco Oltra: wouldn't it be great to have the equivalent of the BSD port system but based on the GNUstep system instead of a specific OS, Yet another distribution system? An ew distribution system working