From: Dave Abramowitz (david.abramowitz_at_verizon.net)
Date: Tue Apr 06 2004 - 13:06:11 PDT
On Apr 6, 2004, at 2:18 PM, DJ Vollkasko wrote:
> Concerning the server, please allow me to suggest working with Victor.
> I
> think UNNA would be a great asset - first of all loads of
> last-available-releases are already filed there (freeware, shareware
> and
> abandonware alike) and many newly released items are also uploaded
> there
> for good measure, secondly it is a well-established place that probably
> every active Newton user knows well, and lastly, it's distributed on a
> couple mirrors, so there is no outage of service if one box goes down.
> All these three arguments might improve the experience of your
> application as well as of UNNA, but then, you mileage may vary.
Agreed - surely would be the preferred way, and I plan on doing that.
I'll just need to talk to Victor about any potential gotchas. Only
concern I have is that any changes he makes to any
structure/paths/whatever would 'break' my app since it would be
dependent. But then again that's probably a better prospect than
gathering every Newton package out there, essentially reinventing the
wheel, which I do not want to do.
>
>
One more idea - maybe would be nice if it could export all packages
> installed. Somehow like Backup, but minus the data - you could have
> somewhere some webspace and export a list of your setup and the
> packages to
> this, so where ever in the world you are, you could reload the setup
> (individual packages/all packages). Maybe you could store several
> setups
> this way and just switch between "personalities" - the full
> communications
> set vs. GPS and all the maps you need vs. gaming vs. productivity vs.
> eBooks vs. databases vs. ... - Dunno if it makes any sense to you...
>
Interesting idea.
Captain Kirk: In every revolution, there is one man with a vision.
Spock: Captain Kirk, I shall consider it.
> Indeed, nice start. - For more ideas, check
> http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/NewtonWishLists - already
> lots
> of brilliant to mad ideas for any enterprising person.
I've visited there before, thanks for the pointer. I'll keep my eye on
it after this one.
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