[Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for projects

[Mathieu Roy]

Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> said:

> Ok. I've got to the point where I can do something.
> 
> I'm going to have to run a fairly large query (select all the news
> items from the database joined by the project details) but I'm not
> going to have to run it often.

Note the heavy changes in the database, in the branch
DEV_2003-09-05_CERN. 

> 
> I have some guile code to do this... but it depends on guile 1.6 and
> on my own libxml2 shared library.
> 
> The options are:
> 
> - install guile 1.6 and my shared guile/xml2-lib on savannah
> 
> - get me to re-write the code in some other language
> 
> The 2nd option seems difficult but it probably isn't because what the
> feed constructor itself does is very simple. It could probably be
> written in awk without much bother.
> 
> Any thoughts?

If you can get in awk easily, it may be the better opion.
 
> Another question is: where do I run this? We don't have a large
> number of boxes. I'm quite scared about sucking up resource on
> subversions for an RSS process.

Maybe Paul have a suggestion?
(I added him in Cc)


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