On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:13:12PM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:00:36PM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > I didn't expect XML to sneak in here; if it must, where's the DTD? > > Is a DTD really necessary? As long as we're the only creator, then we > should be permissive about the format we read in. DTD validation is pretty > restrictive, and not usefully so, I think, particularly if we expect the > language to change over time.
But it's useful to know it while codereviewing, no? > > I think people will want to query on time ranges and on package > > histories (how did I get SUNWjdmo??)--so we'd better have a bug to > > track those. > > Heh. XQuery. :) Why not use a database? SQLite3 or MySQL embedded would be the obvious choices of DB for this. An embedded DB should result in better perf here (a couple of file opens per-DB vs. one file open per-record!). Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
