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Hi all! Happy new year!

I've been helping updating brewology ps3 homebrew.
I'm focusing on the "apps" and "dev" part.

I think most of used apps are there now, still some missing, but with time i think we will have almost all.
A problem i see is almost all apps only work on 3.55 (i think because where built with PSL1GHT with unsigned) and don't work on newer firmwares, so we need to resign and test to work on 4.x firmwares.
Anyone offers to do that task?

Also has i updated i notice some things that might improve the site:

1. New fields in the pkg upload
PS3 version: All/4.xx/3.xx (or other fields)
PS3 type: All/DEX/CEX
This would permit homebrew apps like deroad ps3 channel check if the homebrew is compatible with current ps3
2. New categories
I think Apps, Games, Emulator and Developer are not enough
I think the Apps can be divided into Network/Media/Backup Managers/Mods/Other or something like that.
3. Add html code to description (example: Warnings in red)
4. Add a title ID field to the homebrew.
This would permit homebrew apps like deroad ps3 channel check if the homebrew is already installed

What do you think?

Update: reggarding (3) i just saw that you can do it by putting html code. A WYSIWYG editor like tinymce would be nice
Also when i try to upload files with more than 100MB it gives Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET)

Some additional ideas:
- Add support to accept .zip files (in addition to .pkg)
- Add also a "PC Tools" category
- Add "Save Data" as a side option for store.brewology.com

Another useful divided Apps category would be Linux

I think this is what is missing in the apps and dev category now
1- 100Mb+ like windos3.1 -> bug uploading 100MB+
2- QA flags and toggle QA [done]
3- XMB Mods (package installer, xmbm manager plus, etc) -> to Mods category?
4- rebug xReg
5- flatz dump tools
6- linux otherOS tools -> to Linux category?
7- PSN enabler tools -> to PSN category?

Nice ideas! There is a 60mb file limit currently. I'd like to keep that for a bit until we figure out traffic completely.

As for the other ideas, what is the priorities in your opinions?

I don't know about the others, but my prioraty list is:

1. New fields in the pkg upload
PS3 version: All/4.xx/3.xx (or other fields)
PS3 type: All/DEX/CEX
This would permit homebrew apps like deroad ps3 channel check if the homebrew is compatible with current ps3

2. New categories
I think Apps, Games, Emulator and Developer are not enough
I think the Apps can be divided into Network/Media/Backup Managers/Mods/PSN/Linux/Other or something like that.

3. Add a title ID field to the homebrew.
This would permit homebrew apps like deroad ps3 channel check if the homebrew is already installed

4. Zip and rar upload support

5. Add also a "PC Tools" category

6. Add "Save Data" as a side option for store.brewology.com

7. Add html code to description (example: Warnings in red). A WYSIWYG editor like tinymce would be nice

Reggarding the 60MB upload limit can't you make that possible only for people who can upload hombrew to have a limit of 200MB? I only see tree 3 homebrews that need more than 60MB (winDOS3.1, OpenCP/MIDIer and multiman FULL). If the limit exist it will not be possible to put this homebrew.

In php i think you can use ini_set and in the end of the upload will return to default limit.
ini_set("post_max_size", "200M");
ini_set("upload_max_filesize", "200M");

Gotta have multiman full in there

for now, i think i need to implement the homebrew to add new categories. until that, it's useless to add more categories.

pschannel support zips, but it needs to know if it is a zip or something else. i think that for now it's better to keep pkg/self upload support

i have a "test server" to try new functions, but i don't have so much time
instead of that pschannel also needs to clean the code a little, before improving it.
my code sucks a little. there's some confusion in that.