App Store Technical Requirements

The basic idea of the ns-3 app store would be to store on a server a set of user-submitted metadata which describes various source code packages. Typical metadata would include:

• name
• version number
• description
• download url
• untar/unzip command
• configure command
• build command
• list of dependencies (other packages which this package depends upon)

Then, if the user wants to get the wimax module, he would do something like this on his machine: mkdir tmp cd tmp nsdep download wimax # download all packages which wimax depends on too nsdep setup wimax nsdep build wimax