Random Thoughts / Questions (inspired by Roadmap discussion)

[John J. Karcher]

On 1/17/24 03:06, Cedric At TTS via users wrote:
> Hi John,
>> Cedric, your HoG screenshot looks great!  Please keep us informed - I
>> hope your TuneTracker transition goes smoothly!
> 
> I might get in touch off-list to take you up on your "beta testing" offer (from a while back!),
> my current tester has network-card issues and it might be good to broaden the test base,
> try out different hardware with different Nic adapters.

That sounds great!  I have a couple of physical machines, plus 
VirtualBox, of course.

>> Depot Package Discoverability:
>> Several people have mentioned that it is difficult to discover which
>> Sculpt depot packages are available, and from where.
>>
>> I am going to try to put a temporary solution in place for this, until
>> someone develops something better.  No promises on timing, but I want to
>> bring the badly neglected "Genode Corner" [1] up to date, then add a
>> front-end for listing / searching Depot packages.
>>
>> This will probably take the form of a daily process to pull in the depot
>> indexes, add a search page, and maybe an RSS feed system.  If anyone has
>> any implementation advice or feature requests, please let me know.
>>
>> [1] https://www.alternateapproach.com/computing/genode/genode_corner/
> 
> Well if it was my project (or if I was part of the implementing team ^^) I'd probably
> try to write the back-end script in V, as I suspect it would really fly for that kind
> of job : downloading/parsing an XML file and generating server-side data. The trouble is,
> I'm not sure how it would interact with the front-end, since it's a compiled langage (and I have
> extremly limited front-end experience).

I haven't looked into V yet, but I should do that.  Unfortunately, I am 
probably stuck with PHP for now, because that's what my host provides. ;)

  Thanks!

   John J. Karcher
   devuser at alternateapproach.com