On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:28:07 +0200 "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > > > > Don't forget system packaging tools like .deb, .rpm, etc., which do not > > generally take kindly to updating such things. For better or worse, the > > filesystem *is* our "central database" these days. > > I don't think that's a problem: the SQLite database would be a cache > like e.g. a font cache or TCSH command cache, not a replacement of > the meta files stored in directories. > > Such a database would solve many things at once: faster access to > the meta-data of installed packages, fewer I/O calls during startup, > more flexible ways of doing queries on the meta-data, needed for > introspection and discovery, etc.
If the cache can become stale because of system package management tools, how do you avoid I/O calls while checking that the database is fresh enough at startup? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
