Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Add-on manager

[Alexander W. <ale...@gm...>]

Hi!

2014-05-04 7:06 GMT+07:00 Mihai Neacsu <mih...@gm...>:

> Here are a few things that popped up regarding the add-on manager for
> downloadable extras:
>
> 1. As you've mentioned, we'll need to work on Stellarium (local
> application) to act as a client and to connect to the Stellarium
> server in order to get the extras list (JSON), display it and further
> install packages. What is the status of the current Stellarium server?
> Will we use that server instance? My solution would be to provide a
> REST API through something that scales very well with a high number of
> connections such as Node.js [1]. That's just a thought, I'm all ears
> if you're thinking of a different setup.
>

We didn't have implementation of server for add-on manager yet. Just few
sketches.


> 2. On the client side, what else is there to work on besides the
> add-on manager (the wizard that lists, performs installs, updates and
> uninstalls). In the blueprint you mention some parts have been
> implemented, can you think of anything else that needs to be created
> in order to perform all the above mentioned actions? If you mention
> them I'll look them up in the codebase and see how they work.
>

Technically our download manager for star catalogs and manager for
manipulation for archives of the landscapes you can looked as part of
add-on manager feature.

-- 
With best regards, Alexander