Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] incrementing app_id

[Bradley Bell]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Mark A Peters wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2001, Michael Dean wrote:
> 
> > Ummm...yep...I don't think I said anything to the contrary ;-)
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 20:07, Bradley Bell wrote:
> > > Yes, but it doesn't really assign them... it just increments...
> 
> Currently, no.. But I would like to see the applications have a controlled
> app_id assigned by a controlling agency, simliar to the IETF numbers is
> assigning to OID's.  That way we could build a central repository of
> apps/services similiar to a UDDI/WDDI on maybe www.phpgroupware.org and
> mirrors.
> 
> ie. A couple of clicks by an administrator, the system could do an
> xml-rpc request listing apps that are in the repository and not
> currently installed on their system.  A couple more clicks, and they 
> download the .bzip2/.tgz/whatever and it installs the app.

Why not just index them by app_name?

-brad

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Bradley Bell
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University of Washington
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