[csw-devel] SF.net SVN: opencsw:[398] catalog_signatures/catalog_gpg

[Maciej Bliziński]

Em 21/07/2011 23:48, "Peter Bonivart" <bonivart at opencsw.org> escreveu:
>
> 2011/7/22 Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> > The main benefit is that you use a standard file format that gives you a
> > data structure, e.g. a dictionary of lists.
> >
> > To use a simple text format, we need to design it well. For example,
keeping
> > multiple dictionaries of lists in one file might be annoying to parse in
> > shell. On the other hand, you don't want to create one file per
variable,
> > because this can kill performance (start up times). Having a command
line
> > utility has the advantage that you can change the underlying mechanics
> > without changing the API. If you use text files, it is harder to change
that
> > because you might have 15 different parsers already scattered throughout
the
> > code (and the world), with different bugs and quirks.
> >
> > Simple text files might still be better; I just wanted to point out that
> > there are concrete benefits of using a standard file format.
>
> Can you give an example of the data we will store in these files? So
> far I've heard of architecture and releases and they wouldn't need
> anything more fancy than something like this:
>
> arch = i386 sparc
> release = 5.9 5.10 5.11

I was collecting these in common_constants.py for some time now, you can
look there.

Maciej
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