hi. I started in August a rewrite in python of pkgfile from pkgtools package. The idea was to speed it up and avoid the use of a tree of file and use a sqlite3 db instead. I wrote it quickly and proposed a merge (on github) to Daenyth. He seems to respond well, reviewing the code. But then nothing, except that I vaguely begin to hear about a C python module that read *.files.tar.gz directly. I had to guess that my solution of using an sqlite3 db was not appreciated. I have to admit the intermediate step needed to convert *.files.tar.gz files into sqlite3 db was not that good. By accident, on IRC, I learned that it was brain0 that wrote the module and picked it up on its git repo. I modifed my python code, and made addition to the C module. Later, I also added to the module the possibility to extract full info of a package from desc and depend files in *.db.tar.gz to finalize the rewrite. So it's finished for quite some time now. Daenyth says "he appreciated the hard work" but I see no progress on merging or releasing something so far. The benefit of the rewrite: - super faster speed (thanks to brain0 C module) - download database files from mirror only if updates are available (for http mirrors only) - as a bonus you got a python module written in C that can read packages info in *.files.tar.gz or *.db.tar.gz it's on github https://github.com/solsticedhiver/pkgtools/tree/plan-A a PKGBUILD to build a package of pkgtools with the new pkgfile http://paste.pocoo.org/show/321584/
