AppStream Ideas and Thoughts

[James Rhodes]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:40 PM, genomega <genomega at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: James Rhodes <jrhodes at redpointsoftware.com.au>
>>Sent: Feb 13, 2011 12:17 AM
>>To: distributions at lists.freedesktop.org
>>Subject: AppStream Ideas and Thoughts
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>>Hi Everyone,
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>>I guess I'm going to be barging in here with my non-standard ideas and
>>heretical thoughts.  Over the last 12 months I've been working on and
>>off a project called AppTools
>>(http://code.google.com/p/apptools-dist).  It was basically my attempt
>>to redesign the way applications are installed on Linux; a project
>>which I underestimated the time it would take to complete, just a
>>*little* ;)
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>>Regards, James Rhodes.
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> Why are you trying to re-invent the wheel?
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Same reason that AppStream is "reinventing" the wheel in terms of
standardizing the package manager UI - because the wheel is terribly,
terribly broken.

Regards, James Rhodes.