Re: Proposal: apps.0install.net

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 13:10, Bastian Eicher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose a new feed repository named apps.0install.net which
> would unify the contents from repo.roscidus.com and 0install.de/feeds.
>
> By creating a new repository with a new domain we could:
> - Switch to HTTPS URLs. Not strictly necessary due to 0install's GPG
> signature checks but makes feed URLs look more trustworthy, especially when
> viewed in a browser.
> - Use URLs ending in .xml. This would allow use to use GitHub Pages for
> hosting rather than requiring hosting with .htaccess support.
> - Fit in nicely with the naming of docs.0install.net. Using a 0install.net
> subdomain could also help make the feed URLs somewhat easier to memorize.
>
> We could leave all the old feeds in place but replace their content with
> forwarding/redirects like this: <feed
> src="https://apps.0install.net/category/feed.xml"/>

That might cause problems if a program ends up depending on the same
library by two different paths.
Might be better to use <replaced-by>.

> What do you think? Is this a sensible approach?

Sounds good to me. repo.roscidus.com was only supposed to be a
temporary name anyway:

https://sourceforge.net/p/zero-install/mailman/message/23890186/

> Is apps.0install.net a good name for this, or perhaps hub.0install.net or repo.0install.net?

Any of these is fine with me!


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