Alexandre Dulaunoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> We was  wondering if there is a  simple way to gather  all the project
> hosted  by gna!.  There is  the search  interface where  we can  use a
> wildcard to retrieve all the hosted projects. But to parse and get the
> meta information  per packages from the  XHTML is prone  to errors. Is
> there any  'official' interface in  savane to gather all  the packages
> with the meta information ? 
>
> We would  like that in  order to evaluate  the alpha prototype  of the
> Free  Archive  project  (http://www.freearchive.org/)  to see  if  the
> prototype  correctly   handles  software  package,   meta  information
> creation and the cryptographic time stamping services. 

There is not such thing but that something that could be done. I guess
it just need to define an xml format (the best would be to use an
already defined one) and write a script that update such xml file
every day. 

(we had a similar script in the past, with savannah).

We could have an xml export for users too, providing informations that
could be useful elsewhere (ssh public keys etc).

If you are interested, that's a task we could open for the project
Savane.

Regards,


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Mathieu Roy

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