Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] incrementing app_id

[Mark A Peters]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Bradley Bell wrote:

> 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?
> 
Currently appname is how they are index.  By changing over to an app_id
(int) we will be able to cut down on data storage across the entire API
(lang / (group/user) apps / preferences / etc.).

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