[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

Sun Nov 7 00:12:17 CET 2010

Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+> * 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
+> friends ! :)
+>    
+Even software packages need friends :) :)
+>> -- 
+>> Michael Scherer
+>>      
+
+- André
+
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