Hi, If this doesn't make sense, please forgive my lack of technical knowledge and just forget this message, but...
Common databases use SQL, which is supposed to be based on (an incomplete version of, I've been told) relational algebra. Since darcs has a well defined patch algebra, could we have some kind of big bag of patches that could be queried using a patch algebra based language? Instead of repositories, we (users and providers) would have one (or many, of course) big patch database and query it for patches, dependencies, changesets or even complex combinatorial operations (that providers could restrict to avoid cpu overflow). I belive this could even simplify implementation and be faster for some simple operations than darcs. I don't have a good idea on how such language could be, though... Best, Maurício _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
