GSoC

[John Layt]

On Monday 21 February 2011 14:46:24 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> I have added a couple of ideas for Google Summer of Code.

"Your task: create a new installer, something which looks much more appealing 
and easier to use. The Apple Mac AppStore is a good example."

Might I suggest that adapting the KDE/Linux App Store part of Project Bretzn 
would be a better approach?  Imagine the same app store front-end for KDE (and 
potentially other FOSS apps) across Linux, Mac and Windows, using the OCS and 
all the other bling it has?  

http://blog.karlitschek.de/2011/01/2-amazing-meetings-to-change-world.html
http://dot.kde.org/2011/01/31/bring-your-kde-application-masses-bretzn

Using the Qt version of the store gui would probably take minimal effort to 
run under Windows, and the maintenance and enhancement side of the gui would 
then mostly belong to someone else.

My understanding is that the app store uses PackageKit to abstract the 
different package management systems the distro's use, so the primary task 
would then be to adapt the KDE Windows installer code to be a PackageKit 
backend.

Worth a think about anyway.

Cheers!

John.
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