Very nice Tim, downloaded !

Thanks

You're talking non-sense.

The user has the possibility to rename.
So, eventually he'll do that. (worst-case scenario / murphy's law). It's his problem indeed if he renames a MyLib file, but this has strictly nothing to do with having a package manager.

Why would you not want to then update the obsolete DB ? I don't see any good reason to not hook the rename function to update the db if there is no technical difficulty in doing so.
It's just one of the advantage of having an ndlessed calc.

Well, sure, but you can't prevent the user from renaming his files, so, the hooking solution on the rename/move function to update the DB seems to be the best compromise?

Yeah right... >.<

So, a proper filenaming convention like :

UserDefinedOrDefaultName{1,40}_vMajor[.Minor[.Build]]{1,8}_ArchiveID{1,5}.pcs.tns

So, for example :  FormulaPro_v1.4.1_6034.pcs.tns

(Although idk about the usefulness of a .pcs extension for the final .tns file. Well, maybe to speed up the process of knowing it's been installed through the app store, in case, it's very useful ^^)

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Quote from: adriweb on August 13, 2013, 07:15:14 am

Quote from: Lionel Debroux on August 13, 2013, 04:22:08 am

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I definitely think we need some way to install something on not jailbroken calcs.

Functionality would be severely limited...

Well, for non-jailbroken calcs, "installing" would mean to just transfer one or more files into a specific directory, most of the time it'd be /documents (and sometimes /mylib), and.. that's all, since there is no more handling on the calc side.
Looks pretty simple ? (Both with libti* and navnet)

And probably a database file for installed programs (updates, uninstall, etc).

Oh yes, forgot that.
A simple .txt.tns should be enough I guess ?
Although for uninstalling ,the only difference with jailbroken calcs would be that the user will have to tell the computer software that he's deleted [this] file.

(On another subject, I've almost finished a 1st version of an API for TI-Planet archives. It's for now outputting in json, but tell me what you want and I'll add that (the things are in a php array, so, it's just a matter or choosing the format)

You have tried the 2 demos ? (1 month + 3 months of trial in total)

Quote from: Lionel Debroux on August 10, 2013, 10:28:31 am

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you're simply restraining the target of the whole project to a few dozens people...

There are far more than "a few dozen persons" who can install Ndless...

As a side note, to get a rough idea of how may new users try Ndless: there are about 1400 visits of the Ndless user guide each month.

Well, of course a lot of people install ndless (even thought we don't really know the % compared to the number of Nspires in the world (this would be very cool to know even if it would probably be scarily low in absolute, partly because a lot of handhelds are owned by schools and not students....)

But as I was saying :

Of course, but not so many if you're combining the conditions : getting aware of the project && getting convinced it is a good idea && resticting (with no other motive than pissing the management off) to ndless files.
I'm just trying to help growing the targeted people ("catchment area" / "zone de chalandise" )

Oh and, on our (TI-Planet) part, Ndless 3.1, launched in late January 2012, reached 40k downloads a few days ago (or was it yesterday ?) and is the most downloaded file every week I believe (not counting exam stuff when it's exam time, though), and is the 1st overall (again not counting the exam stuff). Approx 71 times / day , 2100 / month.

I don't know if this has been said ealier or not, but this made me think about uninstallation :

Would it be possible to hook the deletion of the lnk file (if any) to trigger pacspire so that it can properly uninstall everything, as you say ?