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If a site wants to make multiple spec versions available, it should simply have one URL for each version. If your client needs an older spec version, make it use the URL that provides an older spec version. That could certainly be implemented by a ?spec_ver=x parameter, but it doesn't need to...

Don't be embarrassed! You reminded me that I need proper error handling in the install/upgrade code, so it can tell you that your WiFi is off, rather than acting like it works. It's on my list now!

Oh no, why are you stirring this pot :( Standards are a good thing. PXMLs have to fit the PXML standard to ensure that PNDs work. The repo enforces the PXML standard. If this PND doesn't meet the standard, it might not always behave as it's supposed to. And that's not good for end users...

It'll happen eventually :) . When this happens, could you please let me know which PND is doing it, and what shows up in /tmp/pndrun_pndstore.out? Also let me know which PNDs those are (and post the .out file), so I can find the bugs. You mean the version number of PNDstore in the PNDstore...

I actually figured out a workaround for this yesterday. I posted about it on the other boards, but forgot to mention it here. I also finally fixed the bug that sometimes prevented it from working on its first run. That isn't a bad idea. I'll try to make that happen eventually, but there are...

Thanks for the output, Caine! Turns out that's kind of a bug in Python: on Linux, shutil.copy tries to set the file mode, but of course that fails on FAT filesystems. I've switched it to use the simpler shutil.copyfile instead, which I hope will finally fix this problem, which has been...

I don't suppose you have the .out files from when it stalled, do you? I'm not seeing such stalls on my desktop. It could just be network flakiness, which I understand to be prevalent on Pandoras, but if it's something more serious, it should show up in the .out, I think. Don't worry, I'm not...

New beta here! I'm calling this one version 1.0 because you need to empty the pndstore appdata directory before using (no need anymore)! Get the 1.0 beta here! Despite the version number jump, there are very few user-facing changes here. But there are some significant backend changes, so I...

New beta here! I'm calling this one version 1.0 because you need to empty the pndstore appdata directory before using (no need anymore)! Get the 1.0 beta here! Despite the version number jump, there are very few user-facing changes here. But there are some significant backend changes, so I...

Caine: Thanks for the investigation! Unfortunately, I don't know what to do about your results. In disco_search, I've only ever been able to induce a segfault by setting searchpath to None. Even an empty string works fine. Since you say that searchpath is set to the libpnd default, I'm not...

If that were the case, there would be a warning printed, and it would keep running. Segfaults should only appear in external, non-Python code. So it could be a bug in, say, PyGTK, but it's more likely an error in how PNDstore interfaces with libpnd, which it only does when it needs to update...

Oh no, a segfault. I was so glad to have not seen any of those so far, since those will be tougher to debug. Just to be certain, was it on "Updating local package list" when it crashed, or was it still in the middle of "Updating remote package list"? Most likely you have one PND that's...

rohmux: I posted a response in the GP32X thread. To summarize, your firmware is either old or broken. I suggest you reflash with the latest version, hotfix 5.

rohmux: Thanks for the report. That looks like a problem with your OS installation. The "shutil" module is a standard Python module, and is included in the Pandora firmware as of hotfix 4. So either you're on an old version of the firmware, or you managed to remove the module from your...

Version 3.0 has now been posted to the wiki. A summary of the changes made: Added optional "updates" URI, "info" text field, "size" integer, "modified-time" integer. Changed "md5" and "description" to be optional. Removed "applications" array; therefore moved "previewpics", "licenses"...

Tom: Those are all on my to-do list, but I won't be making them happen any time soon. My current focus is on making the backend solid for inclusion in HF6, so I haven't touched frontend code for a while. But if you want to try implementing it, I would be incredibly grateful! As a reminder...

To elaborate on what milkshake said, that would be troublesome just because that information can't be extracted directly from a PND; the uploader would need to enter this information manually, and it's not always easy to make people do that. But some people do use milkshake's additional info to...

As cool as that would be, there's a lot of technology that would have to go in to making that happen. I think we'll get there eventually, but it's not yet a priority.

Ahh, that's wacky. At least it'll be easy for me to fix. Thanks yet some more for all the help.

My only concern with that is how it would make sense in general use of the repo spec. "Additional info" doesn't say much about what kind of information it holds. Maybe the spec could consider it an "extended description" or something? If so, should it allow for multiple languages like title...