[aur-dev] [PATCH] Add newly submitted packages functionality with json interface

[Loui Chang]

On Tue 06 Oct 2009 14:03 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Laszlo Papp <djszapi at archlinux.us> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:40 AM, elij <elij.mx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I guess I don't see the need for this.
> >> If you want to see 'new packages', just use the rss feed.
> >> Dumping this in the rcp api seems... wrong to me.
> >
> > Thank you the feedback! My opinion in this matter is that if I'd like to
> > create a frontend program for AUR, especially console based e.g., or to
> > create another API/backend for AUR, then the json interface/output would be
> > more portable than parsing html/xml pages to get an option for a command
> > line frontend to get the newly submitted/updated packages.
> >
> > Rss feed and this option are different purposes in fact.
> > With this option from command line you could get anytime the newly
> > updated/submitted packages, but with rss you see them continously.
> > The first facility is really console based, but the second is
> > webpage based, I think it's different or maybe I'm wrong.
>
> You could do the exact same thing with an RSS feed... I don't
> understand how this data being in RSS makes it so that you cannot
> fetch the results whenever you want. RSS isn't made of magic.

I wasn't sure if this was a good idea, but then I wondered why we're
fragmenting the data into different interfaces (RSS, JSON, web) rather
than unifying everything under one interface.

So after my initial apprehension this enhancement makes sense to me, but
I'd like to see it do caching like the RSS does.