Re: project vision

All those features are Good Things(tm), however they are just extra
features on top of existing planned features of jRPM.

And if things are already going slowly with the existing features,
making plans for many many more is not going to make development going
any faster ;-)

The original vision of jRPM was very simple. I started this project,
because my distro was RedHat, and I was generally using Windows as my
desktop OS. I wanted to be able to create RPM files from an ant script,
and upload it to the server for deployment.

So the vision was mainly to create a library that can read/write a .rpm
file, and in addition, include a rpm task for ant. Future plans after
that included the idea of also creating the backend/db part.

The main problem with jRPM at the moment, is that there is very little
active development at the moment, as Mike hasn't been having much time
to work on it, and to I have myself stopped using RPM files, as my main
linux distro is now gentoo ;)

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:12:53 +0300, "Nikita" <write_to_zig-JGs/[email protected]>
said:
> Hello jrpm-devel,
> 
> In order to form vision of this project I would like to call attention
> to mine.
> 
> General idea of the project:
> 
> jRPM is a package management system based on rpm packages written in
> java. It provides pure java implementation or integration with native
> rpm if available.
> 
> Key features:
>  - resolves dependencies automatically
>  - provides information from different kinds of package sources
>  - gui (as there are mostly console programs)
>  - searches for required packages in the net and downloads it
>  - downloads manager
> 
> 
> In addition to client application it would be great to create
> web-service with following features:
>  - Stores rpm-files and provides uploading of rpms via web-interface
>  or jRPM client app
>  - Stores package descriptions of remote packages
>  - Provides searching for packages to jRPM client app
>  - Keeps statistics (the most popular package, the most wanted unfound
>  package and so on)
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Nikita
> 
> 
> 
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