Re: [Mentalunix-developers] mpkg package database stuff

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From: "Clinton Ebadi" <men...@cr...>
To: <men...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:26 PM
Subject: [Mentalunix-developers] mpkg package database stuff


> I had a bit of an idea at school today about mpkg's package database -
> - why go through all the work of setting up our own package database, 
> when we could use an abstract interface to any number of db's. Let me 
> explain.
> 
> Ok, step one would be to write a library with database access methods 
> for mpkg. Example: find_file(), find_pkg(), etc, that would be used 
> when installing or finding packages to install(so the package manager 
> would be able to find existing packages, available packages, and see 
> what packages provide the files the package you are installing's 
> dependencies,etc). Now, why write an entire database when all we need 
> are these functions to access the database?
> 
> There are many free SQL databases(postgre,mySQL,etc) that can be 
> searched and have fields added too, so why not use them? My idea is 
> to put all the functions headers in a header file, and then make the 
> implementation a nice shared object -- just pop in whatever interface 
> you wanted. The first of these would be a SQL interface(postgre or 
> mySQL?). The functions would just wrap around the sql server 
> interfaces, providing a standard method to access the package 
> database. The eliminates are a large amount of work on out part, and 
> also adds flexibility. Don't want to have your pkg database in a SQL 
> server? Fine, use a flat text interface. Don't like that? Then use 
> any number of interfaces to different package database access 
> methods. See how this is a good thing?
> 
> Implementing our own db format for the package database would be 
> pointless and just add more work to the task of writing mpkg. So, 
> does my abstract interface seem to make sense?
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