Re: Automatic download and installation of drivers.

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

> What we need now is to find:
> - the best way to to use HTTP for the task.
> - the best way to organize scripts/programs to have a general framework 
>   for requesting drivers of all kinds.
> - actual database servers which are globally accessible to do the work.
> - actual manufacturers to simply provide downloads in their ftp servers.

Actually I think you've got the order backwards:  find systems that need
this kind of software distribution model first; then let their needs drive
development of such an alternative distribution scheme (and assurance
of its trustworthiness/security).  I can imagine local sites hosting some
servers for their local users, for example.

While I've sometimes been intrigued by such schemes, I'll have to be
contrarian in this case and say it's more interesting than useful at the
moment.  (Even for environments like Java, which was designed for
that model of software distribution.)  The current Linux model is that
driver distribution is tightly coupled to the associated kernel.  That is
known to work well.  What's the motivation for another model?

- Dave






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