On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:54 AM, solsTiCe d'Hiver <solstice.dhiver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ > Maybe you could provide the PKGBUILD in the AUR?
