On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:32 PM, James Westby <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > Thinking more about how the upload/download service will work has led me > to some questions about how we will handle new versions of a click > package. > > Imagine we have a published click package, that has a single version of > the binary stored in click-updown. > > Now the developer wants to publish a new version. They need to upload > the new binary to click-updown. This can't replace the existing file, so > we need to track and identify multiple versions. > > If we give each binary uploaded to click-updown a version identifier > (can be entirely separate to whatever version the developer calls it) > then that version can be reported to s-c-a for providing to users. To be > more specific: > > * Developer uploads a binary for package A, it is assigned version 3. > * click-updown stores this and makes it available at > https://download.apps.ubuntu.com/A/3/something > * s-c-a knows that v3 is published for package A, and so can construct > this URL for downloads (or perhaps the url is opaque to s-c-a and > just provided by click-updown) > * s-c-a can choose whether to provide the v3 or previous published > version to users based on the published state of the application. > > Is this how you envisioned it working from the s-c-a side? If not, what > would it look like? > > This sounds quite close to what I had understood myself. Since the package is being uploaded via devportal/myapps/sca, we already know the version of the new binary. I think that click-updown should be treated as a simple storage backend and the url should be generated by sca (and available as part of the click metadata we publish). > Thanks, > > James > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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