Re: Proposal: apps.0install.net

On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 at 14:52, 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>.
>
> The disadvantage of <replaced-by> is that users that have added a feed using
> "0install add" most likely will never notice this change and would then stop
> getting automatic updates.
>
> Perhaps we could use <replaced-by> for anything that is "library-like" and
> <feed> for anything that is "app-like"?

I guess we could use <replaced-by> in all cases, and do the <feed>
thing too for applications.


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