From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA20175 for caml-redistribution; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:33:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA17697 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:49:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de (beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de [194.64.181.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA15865 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:49:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from schneemann.darmstadt.netsurf.de (board-25.darmstadt.netsurf.de [194.163.86.153]) by beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA22163 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:49:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by schneemann.darmstadt.netsurf.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA17435 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:48:38 +0100 From: Gerd Stolpmann Reply-To: Gerd.Stolpmann@darmstadt.netsurf.de To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: The Ocaml Link Database Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:15:56 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 0.7.9] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99021203483708.08633@schneemann> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: weis Hi, Here is a first approximation of what we have discussed some weeks ago: The Ocaml Link Database. It is a web application where everybody can simply enter links to software he or she wants to contribute. The data model is rather simple: every item is described by title, subtitle, release number, the owner of the item, and two hyperlinks, one called "Info", the other called "Download". Note that it is not possible to upload files, I fear that this might be abused. Before you can enter items, you must identify yourself. Everybody has a password such that he or she can only modify his or her own items. It is simple to get such a password; you only have to fill out a form and you will automatically get it. As the age of the application is only several hours there might be still terrible bugs in it. So I think it should be regarded as test application that I present you for further discussion and, of course, bug hunting. The URL where you can find it is: http://www.npc.de/gerd/ocamllinkdb/ The application is of course written in Ocaml. For the curious, the sources are in http://www.npc.de/gerd/ocamllinkdb/src.tgz The whole thing is not a substitute for a real repository that developers helps to exchange source in a much better way. It is intended to make visible what has already been developed and what can be possibly reused for different tasks, i.e. it represents the public side of user-contributed software. If the application meets your requirements, I could place a final release on the same server. (It is a pure Web server, so I can't put a CVS server on it, too.) Gerd -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerd Stolpmann Telefon: +49 6151 997705 (privat) Viktoriastr. 100 64293 Darmstadt EMail: Gerd.Stolpmann@darmstadt.netsurf.de (privat) Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------------------