Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?

[Christof Petig]

Nathaniel Smith schrieb:
> > Additionally monotone (IIRC) caches cert signature evaluation (which is
> > also costly IIRC).
>
>
> It is costly, but actually we currently don't cache.

I could have sworn I saw something like this in the code (back when we
still used views ...) [Isn't there a cache of validated certs?]

> > So a command line automation interface would be much
> > faster and 'echo cmd | monotone automate interact' is easy enough to
> > omit a non interactive interface completely.
>
>
> Mm, not so sure there; firstly because implementing the
> read-eval-print loop in monotone is a chunk of new code, so it's less
> incremental to develop, and secondly because we'd need to define some
> sort of framing protocol on the output, so clients could tell where
> the boundaries between different command outputs were, and this extra
> framing junk would make the 'interact' interface much less useful to
> shell scripts and the like.

Agreed.

> > - execute any sql command
>
>
> No.  The whole point of this exercise is to define a stable,
> supportable interface.  Exposing the database schema directly would
> either mean that the interface isn't stable, or that we'd be
> straightjacketed with respect to things like performance tweaking and
> feature addition.

I wanted to make sure that there is no need to play any dirty tricks
(direct database opening, monotone execute) to gain performance if we
forgot a feature/command. This should be a temporal solution, of course.

   Christof

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