On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:30 PM, JQ Johnson wrote: >> you have to be able to cope with the fact that the user may have >> altered their registry - adding conflicting entries, removing >> others, etc. > > Agreed. If rows of a table are independent, which they should be in a > well-normalized SQL database, then one can add a column that indicates > the data source or date of update or both. This usually gives an > intelligent update procedure enough information to decide whether it > needs to override the local modification. Simplest approach is "only > override an entry if it has the same data source key" though that > misses many cases. > > Having this discussion in the context of mime types, though, may be > silly. For mime types, more is almost always better. What's more > interesting is other sorts of configuration parameters and collisions > in other sorts of locally modified files that don't lend themselves to > being loaded into the db. > > In a Java world, maybe the best approach is to check in a complete > dspace distro in Eclipse and then use the configuration control in > Eclipse to manage local updates.
My comment is at this point is that now your heading into redesign, and thats something that has already started to happen with the Bitstream Format Renovation project that Larry Stone has worked on... In that case this table becomes "locally defined" formats anyways, and all other defined formats come from GDFR/Pronom and are maintained universally the community. I.E. an open community solution with what will hopefully be lower maintenance for us. http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/BitstreamFormat_Renovation -Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
