Lets Do An Website Covering New Updates of System Files eh?

[lempkee]

lurkist: errmm well if you read up you will see that it will hold a DB , and that means in short - comments on update, if problems has occured , etc.

btw when i installed ib2.3 i had no probs with my yam 2.4 , but then again maybe i am using very old libs and mui stuff, hence i dont know really and thats why we should consider such an idea to be a reality very soon (of a system files website)


whabang: ok , i will keep that in mind, but what about all the stuff thats not on AMINET ? , there is heaps of stuff not there, and theese websites die as often as i say cheese and bread :p

[lempkee]

jumpship: exactly!! , thats what i am talking about, you should even be able to not be notifyed if you like, and just start the prog up occasionally.

cheers

[Calen]

Great idea!  :-)

Nothing more annoying than chasing up that much need  Lib for your out of date one or that very rare Lib

[carls]

@whabang

http://ftp.sunet.se/~aminet/recent.html

It's empty!
No uploads at all the latest 7 days?

[Billsey]

Sunet would get it's recent files from Paderborn, and Paderborn has not had recent files added to it recently (sic). :-)

Perhaps there is a problem that as yet has not been spoken of in public.

Well I can do it, *if* the programmers want to support it. The best Idea is simple an archive (using a lib i did for example) -
taglist.library_1.4.lha
- which would have the simple contents -
taglist.library
taglist.library_020
taglist.library_040
taglist.readme
etc

Use the readme as you would in aminet, I can grab the website from that, the filename use *must* be observed (so people can rollback versions), and no other files would be allowed in the archives, that way people know exactly what they're getting. If a library (ie, certain mcc's) requires other ones, then they are permitted to be in the same one.

I can easily script the validation into my website (php), and do it so people can upload aka aminet, or pgp sign the archives, and have their pgp signature on file here, so it can automatically put it onto the site...

Pretty easy, just needs a client (arexx someone?) - and enough support ;-)

Oh, and it should be used for updates *only*, not for people getting the libraries in the first place, who knows what support files will be missing...

And as an extra - might be nice to keep an archive of dev files for these things - make it easier for us coders to find the includes and autodocs we need... ;-)

Robin

[carls]

@billsey
I've had a lot of trouble with Aminet lately. Not being able to reach any mirror at all sometimes, no new files seems to get added etc. Perhaps it's about to go under. That would be devastating for the Amiga scene :-(