[Gambas-user] ...And what is planned for Gambas 3.7

[Randall Morgan]

Just my thoughts,

I think a web front end for the website to allow searching of project would
be important. Also, perhaps projects should be sorted into components and
programs...

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Benoît Minisini <
gambas at ...1...> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> For the next version, I'd like to implement a Gambas dedicated software
> repository.
>
> Here are my current thoughts about it, and I'd like to hear comments and
> ideas from you. I want to start with something as simple as possible
> first...
>
> 1) The Gambas repository is an http web service, but without website at
> the moment. It will allow to:
> - upload software.
> - search for software.
> - download software.
>
> 2) A software is a compiled Gambas project, with eventually the source
> project. Nothing more.
>
> 3) In the IDE, I will add a dialog to upload your project.
>
> 4) Uploading a project requires:
> - a login and a password, so you should be able to create an account
> from the IDE.
> - a project name.
> - a project description.
> - a project icon.
> - a project screenshot (optional).
> - a project major version.
> - tags. Some tags will be automatic (for example the component used by
> the project), some will be predefined.
> - a project control sum (MD5/SHA...).
>
> 5) I will made an external Gambas program to:
> - Search for projects inside the repository.
> - Download and install a project somewhere in the user home directory.
>
> 6) That program should be able to know how to install the needed gambas
> binary packages according to the system distribution. If it is not
> possible, it should at least warn the user about missing components.
>
> 7) A Gambas program may depend on other programs in the repository. That
> way libraries will be able to be put in the repository too.
>
> 8) Gambas examples will be moved from the source tree to the repository.
>
> 9) The repository will be able to include the same program in different
> X.Y versions.
>
> 10) The web service protocol will be documented, and the server will be
> a GPL Gambas project, so that anybody can bring up its own repository if
> needed.
>
> 11) Consequently, we should be able to define different source
> repositories (like Ubuntu ppas) for downloading, and different targets
> for publishing.
>
> Now just tell me what you think about that.
>
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> Benoît Minisini
>
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