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

[elij]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:15 PM, elij <elij.mx at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If you are bound and determined to do it, then memcache would be
> sufficient for caching it (so it can kind of cache like the RSS does).
> Not sure if memcached is running on the aur server yet, but I am sure
> someone could slap it on there without difficulty if it isn't.
>

fyi. I still think it is a bad idea.
Just trying to point out where the duct tape is laying. :P