Re: Dependancies in xmlrpc database

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 12:25, Alan Knowles wrote: > I just did the downloading part of the installer, it's barfing due > failed dependancies - unfortunatly at present the only time it appears > to be able to work out the dependencies is after the package has > downloaded.. > > Is it possible to include the dependancy information in the remote-list > data? - is it in the database? > > This way the interface could 'prompt' > 'this package depends on 'xxx', I will install that as well > (tick here to stop these messages appearing again..) I'm going to add an xml interface to the database too, so you can download entire table dumps, and use this data for cached lookups in the client. I have to do some more thinking on how to though, because it seems to require a restructuring of the current APIs in pear-database.php. But for now xmlrpc is the only option. - Stig