FindingPackages status

Jorge Bernal koke at amedias.org
Fri Aug 5 09:08:10 CDT 2005


El Friday 05 August 2005 14:47, Niran Babalola escribió:
> There are still two more goals left for the spec. The first is
> allowing programs to be installed from a Launchpad web page. I'd like
> to provide a broader solution for this that would work for Launchpad
> and for developers who want to provide an installation link on their
> webpage to install the program directly from the official
> repositories. Work needs to be done on the file format, and I need to
> look into how registering new MIME types works. I'll probably need a
> bit of help with the file format, and I've put up a wiki page with
> what I have so far: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallationFileFormat .
> Any comments would be appreciated.

When I was working on this I drafted some RDF schemas for this.

DAL: http://www.amedias.org/dal/
DAL, or Debian Archive Location is an RDF Schema to define locations of Debian 
based archives.

pkgdesc: http://www.amedias.org/ns/pkgdesc/0.1/pkgdesc
sample file: http://www.amedias.org/~koke/gaim.appinstall

I hope them to be useful for you, and comments/suggestions are welcome :)

> The second remaining goal is to patch Nautilus to allow the user to
> install a program to open files with unknown MIME types. Since
> gnome-app-install has .desktop files with all the MIME types at its
> disposal (though those should probably be separated into their own
> package at some point), it should be fairly easy to pass the MIME type
> as an argument to gnome-app-install and present choices for the user
> to pick from. I've looked a little at the nautilus code, but haven't
> really done anything yet.

I'm not sure which is the best option for this. I guess gnomevfs is the best 
point to intercept the call, as a low level layer, but too low for launching 
a dialog from it.

> I think both of those should be able to be completed before feature freeze.

Good luck,
	Koke

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> Niran Babalola
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