Re:Re: [binarycloud-dev] metabase update

[Manuel L. <man...@uo...>]

Hello,

>> It seems that you so much manual work to syncronize, that I was wondering if I
>> could make it easier for you. So, I wonder if there would be a way to let you
>> do it, by for instance providing a SOAP interface to let you request files or
>> packages in a programatic way. Would that help? Would it be useful?
>
>hi Manuel,
>
>that was certainly in the plans for the future... if you have or would like
>to construct some way of doing that, I'd be ecstatic.
>
>so yes, that would be _extremely_ useful :)
>
>Most of the thought I had put into that was related to modules, the idea
>being that you download and install the binarycloud base tarball, and would
>then use the distro system to install modules.
>
>But we could expand that capability to everything, so you only download the
>"installer" and get all the core and modules you need at once.
>
>The 'syncing' I do is because I wanted to keep an internal 'core'
>binarycloud repository separate from the public sourceforge r2 repository.
>
>I have to sync cvs "manually" but it isn't that hard, I have a script which
>does most of the analysis for me, and commits the deltas when I want.

Actually what I had in mind is to have a SOAP interface in the PHP Classes site, not in binarycloud site. That would work for any classes in there. 

Anyway, I think that in a few months you will want to switch from CVS to SubVersion and you would change only in your end.

Regards,
Manuel Lemos