[Savannah-register-public] [task #4165] Submission of Mall of Freedom

[Mark Jenkins]

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                 Summary: Submission of Mall of Freedom
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: markjenkins
            Submitted on: Thu 05/19/05 at 04:04
         Should Start On: Thu 05/19/05 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sun 05/29/05 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Site Admin. Approval/Edition URL:
 <https://savannah.nongnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=7636>


###### ORIGINAL SUBMISSION DETAILS ######

System Group Name:
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  malloffreedom


Full Name:
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  Mall of Freedom
  

Type:
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  non-GNU software & documentation


License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later


Other License: 
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Description:
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  Mall Of Freedom.
A web based package management system.

Distributions of GNU/Linux typically provide thousands of free software
packages to their users. Some people find the tools available for browsing,
selecting and installing these repositories to be hard to use. Take Synaptic
on Debian GNU/Linux for example, it's a wonderful program,  but it presents
the user with thousands of packages, most of which a typical home end user
will no interest in installing. Plus, installing software involves queuing up
the desired packages, and then telling the application to install everything
queued up.

Mall Of Freedom will target people who are not interested in "packages", but
interested in browsing and installing "applications". It will be a web based
front end to the packaging system their distribution provides,  while
avoiding the distraction of things the user isn't interested in.

There will be two major components on a running system.

1) A web application that could be run locally on the users machine, or on a
remote host. This is what the user interacts with via their web browser.

2) A back end specific to the distribution in use. It will take orders from
the front on what to install or remove, and operate in the background so the
user can continue to browse and select while it works away. Apt and Portage
back ends are planned for our first major release.

Here is the tar ball of version 0.1.1
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umjenki5/mallOfFreedom/mallOfFreedom-0.1.1.tar

There is a live demo of 0.1.1 on the website
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umjenki5/mallOfFreedom/

Code is in Python. (mall.cgi). GNU GPL is being used.



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Other Comments:
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  Dealt with issues raised by Sylvain Beucler, task #4077

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