2011/10/28 Martin Paul <mar...@par.univie.ac.at>: > Thomas Gouverneur wrote: >> >> Something that could be integrated into PCA, related to my other post >> on the mailling, is the new way of getting patches metadata (with XML >> API). This way, when you have a broken dep' like this, you could check >> the proper metadata of the missing patch directly @ Oracle and resolve >> the dependency automatically, without having to link theses patches >> inside PCA's code.. >> >> What do you think ?
My vote goes to the Martin's new idea! > > Even if one would cache most (of the old) patch metadata, getting the rest > on every run of PCA would be pretty slow, I guess. Then there are many PCA > users who run it on machines with no (or only internal) network connection. > > I think having one file with all the metadata makes much more sense than > spreading it over thousands of single XML URLs (especially as it allows > tools like PCA to go back in time by using old xref files). It's sad that > Oracle never found it important enough to add extra fields we are missing to > the xref file (like checksums, etc.), though. > > *IF* the XML interface proves to be fast and stable, and *IF* Oracle would > allow outsiders to offer the contained information (which they don't now, > AFAIK), one could think about a service which would get the xref file plus > all the extra information from the XML links, combine it into an extended > xref file with some new columns, and offer that file, reliable and daily. > Like that, the information harvesting at least would have to be done only > once, and not by every PCA user. > > Martin. Martin, you're a genius! Toc toc! Excuse me, Mr.Oracle, what do you think? Bye Michele -- Michele Vecchiato e-mail <mailto:michele.vecchiato::at::gmail.com Blog <http://michelevecchiato.wordpress.com> LinkedIn profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/michelevecchiato>
