Re: Dependancies in xmlrpc database

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 14:41, Bertrand Mansion wrote: > le 29/05/02 14:16, Stig S. Bakken à ssb@fast.no a écrit : > > > 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. > > Hi Stig, > > It would be great for me and for other users too if one could query the > database by using POST or GET requests and have a returned result xml > formatted or at least serialized. Do you think this is feasible ? Yes. The website is designed so this should be reasonably easy (pearweb/include/pear-format-xxxx.php files where xxxx is html, xmlrpc and in the future xml). - Stig