[csw-maintainers] website does not reflect real package versions ?

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński's message of Sat Oct 15 13:35:50 -0400 2011:

Hi All,

> The effort is mainly led by Ben, who currently has the best
> understanding of the infrastructure - all the databases and the data
> flow between them.

I'm hoping to deploy the mantis integration tonight which will close
that gap.  Then the remaining piece is getting the web display up to
date.

To complete that, we need extensions to the pkgdb REST interface.  The
last time we talked about this I was leaning towards using REST calls
for all of the info which would let us abandon the front-end web db
entirely.  While I think that's still an ok approach (assuming the
calls can supply data quickly and meet the current functionality), I'm
not sure it's the fastest route.  It might be, but I think it'll be
more work initially...I'd rather get something running again and
improve it later.

>From where I sit right now, I think the only extension I'll need to
the pkgdb REST interface is a clean way to pull a list of files
associated with a package.  I already have mechanisms to retrieve the
other info I need from catalog file, descriptions file and REST
interface.

Maciej: Is anything other than interface code required to provide the
	new URL with the backend query to get a file list?

Thanks
-Ben
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