On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:58 AM, <wine-devel-requ...@winehq.org> wrote: > Send wine-devel mailing list submissions to > wine-devel@winehq.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wine-devel-requ...@winehq.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wine-devel-ow...@winehq.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of wine-devel digest..." > > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:57:48 +1100 > From: Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: An idea for the appdb > To: Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com> > Cc: Wine Devel <wine-devel@winehq.org> > Message-ID: > <d7e40be30902110457t3d84c396ibfd264aead12d...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 2009/2/11 Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/2/11 Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com>: >>> 2009/2/11 Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com>: >>>> My idea is that the appdb should allow for people to associate a list >>>> of checksums with an application version. For example, WoW might have >>>> the checksum for the setup program and the game's executable, >>>> associated with the appdb entry. The other extension to the appdb >>>> would be to allow a way to programmatically retrieve information on an >>>> application's rating etc. by going to a certain address (e.g. >>>> http://appdb.winehq.org/getAppInfoFromChecksum.php?checksum=ac2b3f5928cba...) >>>> which would return the info in XML or some other format. >>> >>> You've clearly put quite some thought into this, which is highly >>> commendable. However, I would personally be against such a move, as it >>> would put a lot of extra load on AppDB (in terms of network >>> bandwidth). I'm also not too keen about something that retrieves data >>> from the net every time you run an app. It's too easy for people to >>> mistake it for spyware. >> >> Hmm.. I see your point. However would it really use that much >> bandwidth? I mean, any sane implementation of the functionality I >> described would only display the dialog the first time that >> application was used. Retrieving a tiny xml file is surely less >> bandwidth than browsing the appdb for the application (granted it will >> happen more often than people browsing the site but I still don't >> think it's masses of bandwidth). I can also see what you mean about >> spyware, but other apps retrieve stuff from the web if there is a >> connection (CDDB, and album covers are two examples). > > A request to AppDB would be at least once per user, application > version and Wine version combination. Given the number of people using > Wine, this would almost certainly be a massive load increase on AppDB, > it would repeat roughly every 2 weeks (when new releases come out), > and possibly even bring AppDB down as a worst-case scenario.
What about packaging the latest appdb information with each release? Tim Schwartz Sanity Internet t...@sanityinternet.com