[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

Fri Nov 5 12:09:06 CET 2010

* Michael Scherer (misc at zarb.org) wrote:
+> Le jeudi 04 novembre 2010 à 22:34 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> 
+> > Sophie is not only a database of Mandriva RPM packages, but a database of RPM-based linux distributions' RPMs.
+> > From what I know, sophie is :
+> > - scripts that update a huge RPM database
+> > - the database in itself
+> > - an IRC bot + a web site (sophie.zarb.org)
+> - a giraffe
+> 
+> > Olivier Thauvin started to rewrite sophie so that it can provide package informations to other websites or 
+> > applications. Mageia-app-db will probably get information from sophie's database via XML-RPC or 
+> > any other means.
+> 
+> Technically, even if Olivier hide it, there is a xml-rpc interface :)
+> ( except you can only use it like you use the irc bot so it can be quite
+> ugly )
+
+A rewrite of sophie is on the way, more focus this time of being
+reusable, with real XML-RPC, AJAX and maybe other Web 2.0 technologies.
+
+And I got mad, I'll link it to facebook so Sophie will be able to have
+firends ! :)
+
+> -- 
+> Michael Scherer
+> 
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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