About the forecoming software center

Jumpy

1) Is it still too early to ask for a release date for the new software center of solus (sol or xpg or what ever the name shall be)?

2) "Way back" when internet connections were slow it was common practice to update programs and games with patches (small in size). Over the years this has changed. These days to update a certain software one must download the whole package anew (wasted bandwidth redownloading the same bits and bytes over and over again). In solus (or any other linux distribution I assume) I find especially annoying to redownload libreoffice and iconpackages ever so often, when only a small amount of bandwidth would be required if legacy style patches were somehow implemented (through the software center). I wonder if the solus devteam has considered implementing something like this for the upcoming package management for solus? Atleast for the most recurring and big updates.

Harvey

Jumpy
To quote DataDrake.

So yes, too soon to ask about a release date. (Solus don't do ETAs anyway)

There used to be delta package generation so you only had to download what changed in the package instead of the entire package again. But that had to be disabled due to issues and is part of what DataDrake has to work on (I think in ferryd).

xahodo

Wouldn't it be a good idea to add a few more maintainers, so those packages don't depend on one single developer's free time?

DataDrake

xahodo We are a small team. I'm the Technical Lead. These things depend on my input regardless of who works on them.