[Childsplay-devel] Fwd: Re: python assetml [childsplay@users.sourceforge.net]

[stasZ <chi...@us...>]

On 2003.09.13 20:29, stasZ wrote:

On 2003.09.13 14:04, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> 
> Sory for the long delay. I had to focus on my new job.
> 
> My kids and my wife need more than free software ;)
LOL

> For now, I prefer to stick to the previous implementation. I agree
> with
> you that there is a real performance issue but this has to be solve at
> a
> higher level by doing result caching for example.
This caching seems a nice idea, like a little 'database' which contains
combinations of filepath + AssetML element data.
I suggest you consider a python implementation for this (or some other
high level language), to keep this as simple as possible.
Also i think this becomes an issue when the assetml concept is
become a world wide standard :-), but is important to consider
possible solutions now.

> For the spec file, the documentation is available on
> http://www.rpm.org
> I think, but it's perhaps not the best path to go.
> 
> I remember I used a couple of years ago a meta tool which was simpler
> than rpm and could generate rpm, spec and other less known package
> system. Perhaps its also a way to do it, this way you need to create a
> list of file and that's all. Try freshmeat or google for a such tool.
> The one I used was epm (from the company who made cups)
> http://www.easysw.com/epm/
I will look at it.

For me creating a deb package is no problem, my first thought would
be to use alien (debian tool) to convert a deb to rpm.

On the other hand,
These packages are very simple ones, no dependencies or other
problem stuff, so i think that the most simple approach is to let
the assetml-file-creator-tool make a deb and a rpm. I know
from experience that it's simple to create a deb so i think it's not
to hard to create a rpm. (simple ones i mean)
I'am now working on a assetmlify tool, i will look at creating these 
packages.

For your information, there are now the following python tools:-)

pyassetml - a python version of your libassetml.
pyassetml-query - your query tool.
pyassetml-query.1.gz - a manpage ofcourse ;-)
pyassetmlSDL.py - a SDL/pygame backend wich searchs the assetml
files and returns the found files as, ready to use, SDL objects.

pyassetmlify - the assetml file creator (not complete yet)


Stas Z

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