Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone evaluation in commercial project [long]

[rghetta]

Olivier Andrieu wrote:

>  > rghetta [Wed, 13 Apr 2005]:
>  > The real problem is getting that information out of monotone
>  > without having to parse unformatted data.
>  > At the sql level this is trivial, but the cert value is encoded, as
>  > you pointed out.
>
> Monotone registers functions to decode cert values. Eg you can do :
>
> monotone db execute "SELECT name, unbase64(value) FROM revision_certs WHERE id LIKE 
> '31ba7%'"
>
> There's one for gzipped-base64 values as well ("unpack").

I know, but these functions, while they can be useful for exporting, 
don't resolve the problem of trust.
Perhaps monotone can provide a check_signature()/check_hash(), or, even 
better, register some views to provide a filtered database ?