MacPorts Web App (mpwa) online for initial testing.

Yves de Champlain yves at macports.org
Tue May 15 13:44:40 PDT 2007


Le 07-05-15 à 14:23, Michael Jackson a écrit :

>
> On May 15, 2007, at 10:42 AM, James Berry wrote:
>
>> The MacPorts Web App (mpwa) is online for some initial testing at  
>> http://db.macports.org/
>>
>> This is the start of a vision for a more comprehensive online  
>> repository for ports. Please see some of my sketchy documentation at:
>>
>> 	http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/jberry/mpwa/doc/ 
>> design.txt
>> 	and http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/jberry/mpwa/ 
>> doc/portpkg-design.txt
>>
>> To quote from the design document, my goals for mpwa are:
>>
>> Goals:
>>
>> 	- Develop a network-reachable port storage mechanism
>>
>> 	- Allow for ad-hoc submission of new ports/revisions by any user
>> 	
>> 	- Since users may submit ports and make them available, port  
>> availability
>> 	  is not held up for review by committers. Committers may provide  
>> special status
>> 	  to approved ports.
>>
>> 	- All submissions and versions should always remain network  
>> reachable
>> 	  so that old versions may be installed and/or reviewed.
>>
>> 	- Allow for storage of meta information with such a submission:
>> 		- Submitter
>> 		- Comments by various users
>> 		- Build status
>> 		- (potentially binaries)
>> 		- etc.
>>
>> 	- Allow for promotion of such a submission to a special status  
>> (stable, whatever)
>> 	  by the port maintainer or other official personnel.
>>
>> Note that what is visible today is not a complete implementation.  
>> The following things are implemented, for the most part:
>>
>> 	- port submit, to submit a port to the repository.
>> 	- autosubmit, a script I've been running which auto submits svn  
>> checkins after they've been given a chance to stabilize.
>> 	- mpwa web frontend to browse and view ports and port information.
>>
>> The following is not yet implemented:
>>
>> 	- A handler for the application/vnd.macports.portpkg mime-type to  
>> make it easy to download and use a given portpkg.
>> 	- Any sort of local support for ports by http: url.
>> 	- port get, to get a particular port and use it locally
>> 	- Any remote indexing or query support
>> 	- User accounts
>> 	- User created tags
>> 	- Signing of submissions by submitters
>> 	- Support for dependencies
>> 	- Nicer css design and information layout.
>>
>> Your feedback or help on the project is desired. In particular, if  
>> somebody want so put in a little work on the css and templates,  
>> that would be great.
>>
>> James
>
> James,
>
> Looks great! Can't wait to see this up and running. I would be more  
> than willing to help out on the design/css layout if I had some  
> mockups or some kind of idea where to go with it.


It's already up and running, and looks great !

yves




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