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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:02:40 +0000 |
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Meir Kriheli <mksoft@g.o> wrote: |
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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 |
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> -stats. |
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> I'd love commoents, new ideas or what's else on your mind, so it can |
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> be taken 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 |
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> need to track different protocols as the server/client evolve (we can |
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> add more fields to struct, unaware clients can ignore them). It's |
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> standarts based (XML over HTTP), and save the need for implementing |
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> the protocol itself (or tracking/handling/parsing GET/POST params for |
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> with the client for example). |
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Interesting. I never thought about doing the transaction with xml-rpc, |
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although i must admit it's a pretty good idea. |
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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 |
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> and more). |
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Good boy ;) |
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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 |
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> deployment in case of a need to share db fex). Accomodate additional |
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> features (searchable package files list?). |
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> Check possiblity of interaction with the new packages.gentoo.org |
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> system(fex: getting the current package list) ? |
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> Utilize smarty for web interface (seperate code from display). |
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As said in a previous mail, if you need some helping hands, i'd like to |
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help. I'm a total stats addict and willing to get this page up again |
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asap. ;) |
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I'm familiar with python for some month now and with PHP and smarty |
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since some years, so i could help out on any side. |
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-- Markus |
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