[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 05 november 2010 12:09:06 schreef 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 ! :)

haha, nice; where is she, i want to befriend her!