Re: Renovating GNUstep Software Index into an App-Store...

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 16.02.2010 um 05:45 schrieb Sergey Golovin:

Hi,

2010/2/15 hns@computer.org <hns@computer.org>

Hi all,
recently there was the idea to improve and migrate our GNUstep
Software Index http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/ into a real
Application Store.

And, it was proposed to make it a showcase for GSWeb (http://
wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Creating_A_Simple_GSWeb_Application).

Since I have nil experience with the latter, I would propose to
discuss what we need to do to transform the html/php/mysql code&data
from SWI into a GSWeb app. And, how to install it on the www.gnustep.org
server.  

...

So what do you think what (now whom) we need to do to achieve this
target?

I have some time to spend on this task. I had have some experience with GSWeb
until I switched to SOPE. It could be curiously to check the state of GSWeb in
a working application at least for me ;-). Appropriate functionality can be achieved
in 3-4 week (I believe :-)).

That is less than I had expected!

I don't see about www.gnustep.org clear yet because I know nothing about it.

Well, this is mirrored from a machine called cvs.savannah.gnu.org. There, we have a CVS for the web code that is copied every hour to the production server. And, we have a MySQL database for the data.

I think you can get the current source code through

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/gnustep co gnustep

or easier through

http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnustep/softwareindex/?root=gnustep

What I think we should start with the data model. Currently, we have these tables:

gnustep.sql
Description: Binary data

I think most parts are self-explaning when one goes through the Web forms of the current Soctware Index.

Screenshots are not stored as BLOBs but in files on the server. And, we never store binaries but only links to sources and homepages.

Anyway I would be glad to help in such a way.

That will be a good start and if others jump in, it may become reality..

Best regards,

Nikolaus