[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Improve changelog handling

[Xavier]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:01:51PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2007 11:37 AM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> > So my suggestion: implement a .changelog field to pmpkg_t and follow our usual
> > method to query it, and modify _alpm_db_read and maybe _alpm_db_write. Since
> > this is a new file (descfile) we need a new INFRQ_CHANGELOG infolevel.
> 
> I actually prefer Allan's method much much more. It is very clean and
> functions the way an accessor should. If changing an accessor changes
> like 4 files and 7 different functions, it's garbage.
> 

I'm not sure which one I prefer. Sure, Allan's method is practical and easy,
(I believe the code could be even more elegant by reusing the existing
_alpm_unpack function), but doesn't it go in the opposite direction of having
every code specific to the db behind be_files.c?

And I don't know if reading the archive from various places in the code is
really elegant.