Too much generalization for apps?

[lukasbestle]

After reading http://decentralize.it again, I realized the idea of providing each app with its own CouchDB instance/subdomain/inbox email address might be a bit too generalized.

Not every app will be a web server/web app but instead maybe a Jabber/XMPP server.
These do not require different subdomains as different servers run on different ports.
Also, not every app needs a CouchDB database but maybe a MySQL database instead.

Maybe, we should offer an API to let each app request access to specific core features (subdomains, email addresses, databases, ports) and they will be provided to them as soon as the user accepts this - I don't think giving every app a set of features from the beginning is required.
Forcing the apps to be accepted by the user will also make sure an app can't collar 1000 different ports other apps might need. Instead, the user would have to accept that "the app wants to register a Jabber/XMPP server" (automatic mapping of standard ports) or something like that.

[augustl]

Tere is some additional discussion around app run-time here: #33

It seems that we're converging on docker.io?

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Lukas Bestle notifications@github.com wrote:

After reading http://decentralize.it again, I realized the idea of providing each app with its own CouchDB instance/subdomain/inbox email address might be a bit too generalized.

Not every app will be a web server/web app but instead maybe a Jabber/XMPP server.
These do not require different subdomains as different servers run on different ports.
Also, not every app needs a CouchDB database but maybe a MySQL database instead.

Maybe, we should offer an API to let each app request access to specific core features (subdomains, email addresses, databases, ports) and they will be provided to them as soon as the user accepts this - I don't think giving every app a set of features from the beginning is required.
Forcing the apps to be accepted by the user will also make sure an app can't collar 1000 different ports other apps might need. Instead, the user would have to accept that "the app wants to register a Jabber/XMPP server" (automatic mapping of standard ports) or something like that.

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