On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:15 PM, elij <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue 06 Oct 2009 14:03 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:40 AM, elij <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> >> I guess I don't see the need for this. >>> >> If you want to see 'new packages', just use the rss feed. >>> >> Dumping this in the rcp api seems... wrong to me. >>> > >>> > Thank you the feedback! My opinion in this matter is that if I'd like to >>> > create a frontend program for AUR, especially console based e.g., or to >>> > create another API/backend for AUR, then the json interface/output would >>> > be >>> > more portable than parsing html/xml pages to get an option for a command >>> > line frontend to get the newly submitted/updated packages. >>> > >>> > Rss feed and this option are different purposes in fact. >>> > With this option from command line you could get anytime the newly >>> > updated/submitted packages, but with rss you see them continously. >>> > The first facility is really console based, but the second is >>> > webpage based, I think it's different or maybe I'm wrong. >>> >>> You could do the exact same thing with an RSS feed... I don't >>> understand how this data being in RSS makes it so that you cannot >>> fetch the results whenever you want. RSS isn't made of magic. >> >> I wasn't sure if this was a good idea, but then I wondered why we're >> fragmenting the data into different interfaces (RSS, JSON, web) rather >> than unifying everything under one interface. >> >> So after my initial apprehension this enhancement makes sense to me, but >> I'd like to see it do caching like the RSS does. > > If you are bound and determined to do it, then memcache would be > sufficient for caching it (so it can kind of cache like the RSS does). > Not sure if memcached is running on the aur server yet, but I am sure > someone could slap it on there without difficulty if it isn't. >
fyi. I still think it is a bad idea. Just trying to point out where the duct tape is laying. :P
