My former partners invested fairly heavily in a Web based repository:
http://www.edtechlabs.org/forum/sharehouse.php
Customers use it to browse, search, and download software and school curriculum
of various types. It may give you a few ideas. I don't think they structured
the repository to handle versions very well.
I like the idea of using a browser UI to create packages, upload them to a
repository, to browse and search, download, install, and check installation
status. We spent a lot of time, but never quite came up with a complete and
integrated solution.
-Nathan.
----- Original Message ----
From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 7:11:41 AM
Subject: Software/Code Delivery Mechanism
Hi All,
I am in the process of doing some initial research into making it easier for
software (and/or example code) to be obtained by IBM i developers and
installed on their machines. The problem I see today is that it takes too
much effort to get software/code installed onto an IBM i. It usually
involves a lot of manual downloading and copy/paste processes. Wouldn't it
be cool to be able to take an option in RDi/PDM/command line/browser app,
that would retrieve code from a central repository all with a few clicks of
a button? Many other platforms have this in various flavors.
If you own an iPhone or Droid phone then you know how crazy simple the
process can be for normal users.
I know Mihael Schmidt has done some documenting of a system he is working on
that is similar to Linux. That can be found at the following URL:
http://bit.ly/bI1dcL
In the end it would be best if IBM either came up with such a distribution
framework or at least had a free implementation installed by default so you
wouldn't have to first install something to make the concept work - it would
just be there with a base OS install.
Does IBM offer anything in this vein? I know I can get OS upgrades via
electronic means direct to my machine, but is that available to anyone other
than IBM?
Aaron Bartell
midrange.com
