joe shaw

In New York this weekend for the Brooklyn Summit.

alex spilled water into his laptop immediately

Red Carpet Daemon 2.0 and Open Carpet

Also finally announced the release of rcd 2.0 and the open-carpet stuff. We did a lot of work over the past five months to get Red Carpet into a state where we can try to push it as the premier software management infrastructure and then try to get it integrated generically into GNOME. I am really excited about this release since it opens up a huge amount of open source software to our users who previously needed to turn to some other solution. Our daemon architecture makes it easy for others to write applications which tie into the packaging system, so I hope projects like NARC (Nautilus-Red Carpet integration) pick up again and see some adoption.

The Open Carpet software is a first step toward making Red Carpet services easy to set up. I’d like to work toward getting those big Apt repositories to also set up RC services, so we’ll see. On the other hand, I’d like to see smaller services set up as well. The recent Gossip release seems like a perfect candidate for Red Carpetification. I’ll have to email Mikael and Richard, since I don’t think they’re at the Summit.