ok, i'm looking into sqlite3, but if the db should be for all the user
we need permission to write in a system folder.
how to make a cache? it think that something like:
if not package in cache:
packages.append([
pkginfo1
pkginfo2
pkginfo3
...
])
else: pass
can work.
i was thinking about the use of a database, re-builded every time the
cache update or upgrade, this because parse the contents of a
directory(/usr/share/app-install/desktop) is very slow, so we can build
the database parsing the directory only the first time, then parse the
database to get the
Hi Stefano,
Something like GDBM hashes or sqlite SQL backend should be ok I
presume, however making hard dep to some RDBMS (even mysql) is an
overkill as per my opinion.
Cheers,
Ruslan
2011/9/5 Stefano eco.st...@fastwebnet.it:
i was thinking about the use of a database, re-builded every time
On 09/05/2011 01:20 PM, Stefano wrote:
i was thinking about the use of a database, re-builded every time the
cache update or upgrade, this because parse the contents of a
directory(/usr/share/app-install/desktop) is very slow, so we can build
the database parsing the directory only the first
It's a good idea. Please don't use gdbm. It's performance is not good.
For a simple and lightweight hash db, you can consider tdb, which is used by
samba.
If you want more advanced query, then sqlite is the best choice IMO.
A nice idea is using locale specific cache since most parts of of a
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