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Re: XSA proposal

  • From: Jeffrey Ricker <ricker@x...>
  • To: Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@i...>,xml-dev@i...
  • Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 07:11:52 -0400

solitaire.jar
Lars,

My first reaction was just like Tim's: this is OSD. But then I saw that it
was more of the e-commerce part rather than the mechanics of software
distribution. Am I right? If so, perhaps it should be a part of a larger
effort. Have you spoken to the RosettaNet project about your ideas?

Jeffrey Ricker
ricker@x...

At 10:27 AM 8/7/98 +0200, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>
>* Lars Marius Garshol
>>
>>This is a proposal for XML Software Autoupdate, a system for
>>automatically keeping track of new releases of software products.
>
>* Tim Bray
>>
>>Isn't this what OSD, from MS & Marimba, is supposed to do? 
>
>Yes, in a sense. However, XSA concerns itself with discovering
>new versions and changed addresses, while OSD goes much further,
>and omits some of the most useful parts of XSA.
>
>Compare the example below from the OSD spec with the XSA sample 
>and I think you'll see what I mean. I looked at OSD before I
>started this, but skipped it as it simply wasn't suitable for
>my purposes.
>
><SOFTPKG NAME="com.foobar.www.Solitaire" VERSION="1,0,0,0">
>    <TITLE>Solitaire</TITLE>
>    <ABSTRACT>Solitaire by FooBar Corporation</ABSTRACT>
>    <LICENSE HREF="http://www.foobar.com/solitaire/license.html" />
>    
>    <!--FooBar Solitaire is implemented in native code for Win32, 
>         Java code for other platforms -->
>    <IMPLEMENTATION>
>        <OS VALUE="WinNT"><OSVERSION VALUE="4,0,0,0"/></OS>
>        <OS VALUE="Win95"/>
>        <PROCESSOR VALUE="x86" />
>        <LANGUAGE VALUE="en" />
>        <CODEBASE HREF="http://www.foobar.org/solitaire.cab" />
>    </IMPLEMENTATION>
>    
>    <IMPLEMENTATION>
>        <IMPLTYPE VALUE="Java" />
>        <CODEBASE HREF="http://www.foobar.org/solitaire.jar" />
>            
>        <!-- The Java implementation needs the DeckOfCards object -->
>        <DEPENDENCY>
>            <CODEBASE HREF="http://www.foobar.org/cards.osd" />
>        </DEPENDENCY>
>    </IMPLEMENTATION>
></SOFTPKG>
>
>--Lars M.
>
>
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