[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

[Olivier Thauvin]

* 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
firends ! :)

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> Michael Scherer
> 
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Olivier Thauvin
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