[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

andre999 andr55 at laposte.net
Sun Nov 7 00:12:17 CET 2010


Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> * Michael Scherer (misc at zarb.org) wrote:
>    
>> Le jeudi 04 novembre 2010 à 22:34 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
>>      
>>> Sophie is not only a database of Mandriva RPM packages, but a database of RPM-based linux distributions' RPMs.
>>>  From what I know, sophie is :
>>> - scripts that update a huge RPM database
>>> - the database in itself
>>> - an IRC bot + a web site (sophie.zarb.org)
>>>        
>> - a giraffe
>>      
>>> Olivier Thauvin started to rewrite sophie so that it can provide package informations to other websites or
>>> applications. Mageia-app-db will probably get information from sophie's database via XML-RPC or
>>> any other means.
>>>        
>> Technically, even if Olivier hide it, there is a xml-rpc interface :)
>> ( except you can only use it like you use the irc bot so it can be quite
>> ugly )
>>      
> A rewrite of sophie is on the way, more focus this time of being
> reusable, with real XML-RPC, AJAX and maybe other Web 2.0 technologies.
>
> And I got mad, I'll link it to facebook so Sophie will be able to have
> friends ! :)
>    
Even software packages need friends :) :)
>> -- 
>> Michael Scherer
>>      

- André



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