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["Trevor Dennis" <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just another thought.  

We're already packaging Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, etc in CoApp already.
What's stopping us from using these packages to build our repository
servers?  

All we need is a CoApp created MSI called CoApp-Repository.msi that puts it
all together using our own CoApp packages then anybody can build their own
fully functional repository server in a couple minutes.  Of course, we could
do this with C#/IIS as well but they would just have to setup some
prerequisites first.

While I like the idea of not having a database backend, we are going to
require some code on the server to allow people to submit packages easily to
the repository and for returning filtered results. There are probably some
other client/server things that we'll come up with later.  PHP/C# could do
this by using the full XML metadata on the server and then returning the
subsets needed to the clients.  Server to server replication though could be
done with almost anything.

Trev.


> I think it's important to support the broadest possible mirror
> infrastructure.  We underestimate how many naïve users we'll miss (me
> being one of them, potentially) if we limit adoption to higher-
> functioning mirrors.  I'd like to avoid web-specific services, if
> possible.
> 
> -- Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coapp-developers-
> bounces+hanrahat=microsoft.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:coapp-
> developers-bounces+hanrahat=microsoft.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Philip Allison
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 7:58 AM
> To: coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] [wishlist] [future] Non-webservice
> fallback for repository XML + mirror requirements
> 
> Think also of the amount of mirror infrastructure that already exists
> in the form of big, dumb file servers.  Regardless of whether or not
> they're running Windows, they won't want to mirror CoApp packages if
> that means setting up CoApp-specific web services.
> 
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