Re: UDD data - MySQL - Was: Re: Archiving UDD data : FLOSSMole ?

2009-06-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:22:10PM +0200, Olivier Berger wrote: I think it depends the kind of analysis people might want to do for their research in mining the Debian metadata that would be archived in FLOSSMole, maybe these package versions wouldn't be needed, so strings without the full

Re: UDD data - MySQL - Was: Re: Archiving UDD data : FLOSSMole ?

2009-06-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 05:59:21PM +0200, Olivier Berger wrote: Actually, something obvious seems to render things a bit difficult at first sight : UDD is in PostGres, and FLOSSMole uses MySQL. We're discussing some options on the ossmole-discuss list to overcome this difficulty. My

Re: UDD data - MySQL - Was: Re: Archiving UDD data : FLOSSMole ?

2009-06-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:49:27AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: UDD has some parts that are Postgres specific, in particular it uses the Postgres extension mechanism to internalize Debian version comparison so that it can be exploited in queries. In the beginning, the internalization was

Re: UDD data - MySQL - Was: Re: Archiving UDD data : FLOSSMole ?

2009-06-16 Thread Olivier Berger
Le mardi 16 juin 2009 à 12:50 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:49:27AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: UDD has some parts that are Postgres specific, in particular it uses the Postgres extension mechanism to internalize Debian version comparison so that it can be