Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 00:50:16 -0300 From: Duane Whitty <duane@dwlabs.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Subject: Berkeley DB API [was Re: SoC] Message-ID: <20070515035016.GG1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070514202922.GF1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> References: <20070513040651.GB1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> <4647F627.7020408@u.washington.edu> <20070514202922.GF1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca>
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[snipped] > > > Do you know of any simple APIs that can quickly dump fields in use > > with BDB .db files? I have a hunch given the Ruby that I've taken a look at > > with Portupgrade that something very inefficient's in play, but I want > > to test my assumption first before jumping to conclusions. > > > > I did a quick ports search and came up with databases/ruby-bdb1. I don't grok ruby > but I've telling myself I should learn [sigh]. I don't know if this has a simple > API or not; I'll take a look but I suspect it is probably overkill. > > If this doesn't meet your project's needs I'll try coding something up in C. I > imagine we'll need some tools written in C at some point anyhow. > > > Thank you very much for the help :)! > > > > Well, we'll see about how much help I can be; but I'll try. It's your project > so let me know what you need or don't need/want > > > -Garrett Well, databases/ruby-bdb1 will not work because pkgtools uses the newer version of DB, Sleepycat DB 4.(2|3) I guess. However there is ruby-bdb that seems like it would be simple for someone who understands ruby. I've also noticed there is a perl and a python interface available as well. I wonder what the ramifications of the above are to the goal of using the bdb in our base system to add db smarts to the pkg_install tools in a way that will be complementary to exising tools? Duane
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