Richard Hughes wrote: > Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> To do such mapping we need code (or a "service") that does the mapping >> for us and base of collected data that the service can operate on. Both >> of these is project "PackageMap" > You might as well use Gentoo's version specification for your internal format, as it's the most comprehensive. The most you need to add is debian epochs.
> I'm also worried that a package manager has to read in and parse > thousands of small files. Why did you decide to write each project as > a single xml file? > <snip> > I agree with the concept, but not the implementation. All you're > trying to provide is a packagename <-> ID database. XML might be > useful for storing the data, but not for querying. > XML was never meant for data-storage for such record-sets: it was designed for data *interchange* between incompatible database engines, and as a friendlier SGML for user-defined data (which some poor DBA/coder would otherwise end up having to pull in from Excel, in most cases. The cleanup in such cases can take days, depending on how long the executive in-question has kept it as a pet-project;) igli. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)
