Re: [Oai-pear-devel] 0.4.1 release?

[Brion V. <br...@po...>]

On Apr 21, 2004, at 01:33, Sandro Zic (ZZ/OSS) wrote:
> I hope you can wait until Monday, that's when I'll have time to look 
> at the
> code and make a release.

Thanks! No rush, Monday's fine.

>  Is there anything else you would like to see in this
> bugfix release? Or anything you need in future versions?

Well, for the future... Our data's coming from a FileMakerPro database 
rather than over something sane that speaks SQL, so I'm already redoing 
most of the backend. I've found that I have to duplicate a bit more 
code than I'd like because things are built into the default SQL 
backend. For instance, having to check the global identifier masquerade 
setting and call _stripIdentifier() or _masqueradeIdentifier() in 
various places, and having to produce formatted XML for header records 
and listMetadataFormats(). It would feel cleaner if that were done one 
level up, and the backend just fetched and returned data records.

We've also got repeating items (for instance, the subject field can 
contain multiple strings, leading to multiple <dc:subject>s in the 
output) which doesn't seem to fit with the associative array->template 
system used for the default backend's output. I'm kind of hacking 
around with things, so I don't know exactly where I'll end up there.

I've saved a lot of time by not having to redo the protocol frontend, 
though. :)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)