[arch-general] We want to help

[Nicolás Reynolds]

El 14/12/10 01:14, C Anthony Risinger dijo:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Tomás Acauan Schertel
> <tschertel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You've done a great job Anthony. Your app is a all-in-one!
> > Our focus is (was) create a better AUR, with new features and using
> > other platform (from php to django). I think your focus is a little
> > different, isn't?
> 
> well, the immediate focus is to create a better AUR, feature
> complete++ to the current one, but with the additional goal of
> eventually decoupling it from a client-server model, and ultimately
> from archlinux altogether.  i have some ideas about a 100%
> "distributed distribution", but that's neither here nor there :-).
> 
> so no, not really.  i intend to create a sweet AUR.   the AUR really
> stood out when i came to archlinux, and set it apart from others; it's
> highly related to my own research and interests, and in general just
> needs an overhaul.
> 
> the benefit to the pyjs approach is 100% client side operation, so it
> can run without online access.  additionally, the python-DOM version
> (or the pyjs version if proxying thru a local daemon) could
> potentially direct install from the website, leading to "install now"
> functionality.  lastly, python means you could use the same lang to
> write the front end and the backend, and communicate using JSON
> messages.
> 
> but yeah in the medium run, i'd like to see archlinux.org function as
> a simple state tracker, linking users together, and letting them share
> and manage their own PKGBUILD repositories.  in the long run,
> archlinux.org is dropped altogether, and the AUR is completely P2P.
> 
> as a professional web applications developer by day, i can vouch that
> writing webapps requires knowledge of about 4 different haphazardly
> implemented "standards", requiring far to much painfully acquired
> knowledge.  by using a library like pyjamas, you allow anyone with
> python experience to write incredibly functional plugins/modules, and
> share maintenance load.  django is a great platform, but after i
> discovered pyjamas about 1yr ago, i haven't looked back, and am
> convinced that compiler technology is the only sane way to develop
> complex and maintainable web-based applications.
> 
> C Anthony
> 

p2p-aur \o/

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