[gobolinux-users] Web based recipe browser

[mpb]

> > > Would it be hard to have it list packages as well?

Package search has already been added to the browser.

On 3/5/07, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:

> Just pull down the manifest file:
> http://gobo.calica.com/packages/official/MANIFEST{.bz2}

> How is it implemented (perl cgi, php, ruby on rails, J2EE, etc)?  Once
> it's stabilized, I could run it on gobo.calica.com and we can avoid
> rsync issues.

The Recipe/Package browser is written in PHP, with SQLite as a backend.

I have discovered that rsync can generate easy to parse directory
listings.  That is what it is using now to index calica.org (official
only, at present).  I've also written find.php, a script that
generates dynamic directory listings, for people who want to publish
packages without generating MANIFEST files.  I could also switch the
browser to use MANIFEST files, and may do that at some point, but I
don't know how soon that would be.  (Perhaps I should start calling it
a Recipe&Package viewer, instead of a browser, to avoid confusing with
Firefox, IE, etc.)

-mpb