Ste Packaging

Both of those functions live on a server in my home, totally separate from the server (out on the Internet) that hosts the packages. My cable company had a major outage last night and this morning and when it all came back my IP address had apparently changed. I’ve updated what needed to be and both functions are accessible again. My thanks to “mineshaftgap”, who pointed out that they weren’t accessible.

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I’ve moved the processing of the webserver logs and the serving of the statistics to a virtual machine and the database has finished rebuilding. I’ve also added the data from the past three days, which brings the database current. Enjoy!

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Whenever I add a new package (not an update), I have to update a database table, so that the package will show up on the package stats page. It seems I forgot a few lately. Their downloads were being tracked, they just weren’t being displayed. The following packages now show up on the stats page:

• Alert
• AppFlow
• English-German
• German-English
• PhotoDial
• Pool
• ShowTime

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I haven’t been able to reach one of the servers for 40 minutes. I also cannot reach the hosting company’s website. I have just removed the server from DNS and it will therefore be out of service within 30 minutes from now. I’ll add it back whenever this is resolved. In the mean time, the other server will carry the load.

Update 2008-03-03 14:32 - The server was cut off from the net due to (I’m told) a fiber cut that has been fixed. It’s been accessible for 30 minutes, so I think the fix appears stable. I have just added it back to DNS and within 30 minutes the load will be once again split between the two servers.

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There is a new software manager for the iPhone and iPod Touch, called “Cydia Packager“. It looks like it is (or soon will be) excellent, perhaps even better than Installer.app. Time will tell. (Competition is a good thing.)

I will be supporting this packager too.

I am going to work, even harder, to get caught up on my packages fpr Installer.app, so that I will then have time to start repackaging everything for Cydia. Thankfully, there are automated scripts out there that will do much of that work for me, but I will have to verify they all come out right and that they work, and so on. I have nearly 300 packages to do …

I will support both packagers, unless, of course, one of them is clearly superior to the other. That’s down the road, however - expect me to support both for some time to come.

In other news …

I am toying with the idea of adding forums to my repository, so that users of my packages and repository can interact with each other, support each other and so on. Is this something you would be interested in having? I don’t want to spend a lot of time and energy on something no one wants, so now is your chance to tell me what you think, in the comments.

Update: In still more news … Nullriver added a method for me to state a package’s sponsorship that is much better than my stuffing it into the Description field of every package, as I had done. This new feature is in the version of Installer.app that was released today - version 3.01. I will be switching to this method before the end of the day. The good: you will get back the full Description field (especially in the list of packages). The bad: for the next three days, ALL of my packages will appear to have been updated. Sorry about that. :)

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