An idea for the appdb

Luke Benstead kazade at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 03:45:48 CST 2009


Hi all,

I was thinking earlier it would be quite nice if when I double clicked
a Windows app in GNOME it would display a nice dialog saying something
like "This Windows application may not run correctly as it is
currently rated Silver. Please report any bugs to the Wine project.
Continue | Cancel". Obviously this kind of functionality is not a job
for Wine, but for the distro. Still, it got me thinking how this kind
of functionality might be achieved.

My idea is that the appdb should allow for people to associate a list
of checksums with an application version. For example, WoW might have
the checksum for the setup program and the game's executable,
associated with the appdb entry. The other extension to the appdb
would be to allow a way to programmatically retrieve information on an
application's rating etc. by going to a certain address (e.g.
http://appdb.winehq.org/getAppInfoFromChecksum.php?checksum=ac2b3f5928cba...)
which would return the info in XML or some other format.

So what do you guys think? Perhaps some of this functionality exists
and I don't know about it :)

Luke.



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