Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:10:11 +0200 From: Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreshPorts API Message-ID: <0ff44346-046c-722d-8c5c-e857044658ad@toco-domains.de> In-Reply-To: <769D72EC-0F40-4D83-9672-B2635AB9D4B4@langille.org> References: <769D72EC-0F40-4D83-9672-B2635AB9D4B4@langille.org>
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On 21.09.2017 14:31, Dan Langille wrote: > FreshPorts contains more than just ports. It contains all commits to the FreeBSD repository. > > This is all stored in a database. It can be queried. We just need an API. > > The goal is to start gradually, based on the ideas started at https://duck.co/ideas/idea/936/grab-bsd-port-summary-from-freshports <https://duck.co/ideas/idea/936/grab-bsd-port-summary-from-freshports>; > and later at https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/4 <https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/4>; > > I did start using https://github.com/marcj/php-rest-service <https://github.com/marcj/php-rest-service>; (I didn't get to the > point of having methods invoked), I'm looking for others to help get this started. > > The goal is a PHP-based API. Why? Existing PHP code for database access. But what problem to you want to solve with it? I regularly dump the ports-tree into a database for some research or hacking. But beside this very specific cases i never needed it. So what do you want to accomplish? Greetings, Torsten
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