MPWA

[Dmitry Gorbik]

I would propose using Sinatra or Ramaze instead of RoR. Smaller and faster.
What are your thoughts about that?

2010/4/7 livinded <livinded at deadbytes.net>

> I've been reading over the code and, aside from a few modifications, there
> really isn't much there other than the default scaffolding that rails
> creates for you. I'd definitely use what's there as a base, but it would
> probably be simpler to simply scaffold everything using a newer version of
> rails and just porting all of the actual changes to the new code base.
> On Apr 6, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
> > Hello Joe,
> >
> > On 2010-04-06 05:29 , livinded wrote:
> >> I've been looking over the MPWA project for the GSoC and am
> >> interested in working on it. After checking out the code base and
> >> attempting to get it up and running to test out, I realized that it
> >> was written using Rail 1.x which is almost two major revisions
> >> behind. After a number of modifications I was able to get the code
> >> base running on 2.3.5 somewhat and was able to actually test it out.
> >
> > It is nice that you got so far. As the code is old as you say, you are
> > not tied to use ruby on rails or any of the existing code. If you think
> > porting to a newer version would be more work than a rewrite, that's
> > okay. Propose and use what you think would be the best tools for this
> task.
> >
> >> Looking at the TODO list there in the subversion repo there really
> >> didn't seem like there was all that much, featurewise, to do other
> >> than add in user/role authorization, commenting, and minor changes to
> >> the view. Based on the current code base I see there being two major
> >> portions of this project, the first being to update the code base to
> >> use a newer version of rails, either 2.x or 3-beta, and secondly
> >> adding in new functionality. I know that the code base is fairly old
> >> and was wondering what else such as integration with Trac or other
> >> systems that MacPorts uses or other features that should be added
> >> into it?
> >
> > MPWA should be able to be a comprehensive online interface to the ports
> > tree. List which ports are available (with a search function of course)
> > in a appealing way. It should also include links to tickets filed
> > against a port. Maybe it could also have some rating/comment system.
> >
> > Decide yourself which features are possible and how. You could compare
> > to already existing websites for other distribution systems
> > (packages.debian.org, packages.gentoo.org, freshports.org to name a
> few).
> >
> > Rainer
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