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Andy Dustman wrote: |
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> Jerry McBride wrote: |
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>> Portage SHOULD have a database backend. MySql would be perfect. In the |
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>> name of performance, at least have a second look at this. |
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> I don't think mandating any relational database as a pre-requisite to |
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> Portage is a good idea, unless you implement it in such a way that you |
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> have it as a pluggable backend, i.e. you can stick with the current |
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> filesystem method, or bdb, or MySQL, or PostgreSQL, or whatever. |
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In retrospect you need not mandate a particular database, but having the |
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ability to plug portage into an sql compatible database engine would be a |
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dream. On the other, for the sake of simplicty, using something the likes |
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of bdb would be just as useful. Whatever you decide on using, it would HAVE |
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to be better than the current file system based method. |
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> There are some plusses to having the database backend: Centralized tree, |
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> and fast queries. Downside: Extra complexity, and how often do you need |
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> to query the tree anyway? |
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I like Linux and I love Gentoo's wide selection of applications. I'm |
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constantly poking around the portage tree... :') |
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If for some reason the database backend never comes to mature... maybe we |
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can move the .ebuild files in the portage tree to html instead of the flat |
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ascii that they currently are? Konqueror would like them better. Hmmm... |
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how about a master index.html file? |
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There just HAS to be a better, faster way of doing this... :') |
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> And yes, this is my project: |
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python |
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> a.k.a. dev-python/mysql-python |
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Nice to meet you. Keep up the good work. |
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