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Hi, |
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After giving some thought to the issue (and looking at the prev -stats |
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implementation details), here's the proposed design for the new -stats. |
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I'd love commoents, new ideas or what's else on your mind, so it can be taken |
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into account upon implementation. |
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1. xml-rpc for communications |
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Seperation of communication mechanism from data. This will prevent the need to |
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track different protocols as the server/client evolve (we can add more fields |
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to struct, unaware clients can ignore them). It's standarts based (XML over |
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HTTP), and save the need for implementing the protocol itself (or |
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tracking/handling/parsing GET/POST params for with the client for example). |
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2. client side. Rewrite with python (now in perl) |
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Will allow us to tap into portage API if/when needed. |
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Python already installed on all gentoo systems, and includes all the |
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needed modules (including xml-rpc). Current perl client depends on |
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additional perl modules (e.g: MIME-Base64, URl, HTML-Tagset and more). |
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3. Server side |
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Rewrite with PHP. PHP's PEAR has a good xml-rpc implementation. |
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Redesign and normalize the db, use prefix for tables (will ease deployment in |
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case of a need to share db fex). Accomodate additional features (searchable |
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package files list?). |
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Check possiblity of interaction with the new packages.gentoo.org system |
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(fex: getting the current package list) ? |
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Utilize smarty for web interface (seperate code from display). |
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4. Delpoment machine |
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Development will take place under my own server for now . Will be deployed on |
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gentoo's infrastructure upon completion. Hope we can utilize a cvs module for |
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it, allowing others to participate. |
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Cheers |
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Meir Kriheli |
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MKsoft systems |
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http://www.mksoft.co.il |
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