Hi Max and Fink Web Page Developers I started playing with the PDB on an unused page:
http://www.finkproject.org/pdb/ I started implementing some of your ideas (e.g. <p>s are no longer hardcoded into the db). I also started to reformat the output of package.php a bit (with the help of people on #fink) Please let me know of any other ideas you would like to see implemented/changed. I set up a wiki page to track the ideas: http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:PDB Please feel free to add there. Best, Christian. On 14.01.2007, at 15:51, Max Horn wrote: > > Am 14.01.2007 um 22:41 schrieb Christian Schaffner: > > [... some stuff by me talking about adding a nicer interface to the > PDB ...] > >> I like this idea very much and think that Fink would definitely >> profit from an update of our pdb pages. > > Glad to hear that :-) > >> >> One option I am missing on your browse.php right now would be the >> selection of distributions (e.g. 10.4, 10.3 etc.). Would that be >> possible? For example it would then be possible to check which >> packages are not in stable for only the 10.4 tree. > > That definitely would be possible. In fact it would be easier than > just showing all "stable" packages across all releases, I guess. > > Sidenote: Boy, the PDB is not really a "nice" example for a > relational database... talking about e.g. orthogonalization (why is > there a "fullname" field? Why do we hard code <p> in the > "description" field? Why do we have a "release" field that mixes the > values for "distribution/relase" with the tree (stable vs. > unstable) ? Hrm, of course this is not he problem at hand, but I > think it would make a lot of things easier if we fixed those issues. > Might be quite a bit of work, though. > > >> What I also would like: Show packages that could/should be moved to >> the stable tree. The rule could be: >> >> 1) >> Has the .info/.patch files of the package been changed in, say, the >> last 2 weeks? >> >> 2) >> Are all packages that this package depends on in the stable tree >> (for that distribution)? "In stable" could mean any version that >> satisfy the dependency, or, exactly the same version/revision than >> in the unstable. I would suggest the latter definition, just to be >> sure the package in the stable tree builds exactly as in the >> unstable tree. >> >> If both conditions are met, the package could/should be moved to >> the stable tree. > > Sounds like a nice idea, but ... >> >> Could browse.php deliver this information? > > ... this is not possible at this time, no -- the relevant information > simply is not available in the DB. We could change that by adding a > "last changed date" field, and a "deps fulfilled in stable?" field, > though. That would require changes to the DB and the scripts used to > generate and update it. And I wouldn't want to do any of these > changes on the live system, so somebody would have to setup a test > system for it, etc. > > >> Anyhow, Max, I think the addition of browse.php would be great once >> it is working correctly. > > Good. I think even in its current form (after temporarily disabling > the not-quite-working parts, making the interface look a bit nicer, > and adding some helpful text) it would be a good addition > (replacement?) for the currently used interface. > > > Bye, > Max > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
