On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote:
> > it will now be a command line application that outputs the data as > uncompressed XML, in the same format as current dumps. > > That will help a great deal. But I assume your application will be for > Linux only? > So it would help to still generate current compressed dumps, as post > processing step, and store them online for download. > > One of the reasons of xml dumps is platform independence, both from > producer side (we had ever evolving SQL dumps earlier), and consumer side > (not everyone uses Linux). > Platform independence is one of the main reasons I wrote the old 'mwdumper' processing tool in Java. Something in C/C++ should be able to be portable as well, though, it mainly means a slightly more complicated build system... and then we actually have to distribute binaries if we're not user-hostile. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
