Request for comments: port-tags

[Anton Berezin]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:57:07AM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Monday 07 November 2005 08:44, Anton Berezin wrote:

> > This is not very difficult to arrange.  :-)
> >
> >   http://bsd2.be/port-tags/TAGS.bz2
> >
> > Updated with the same frequency as the database itself, that is, for now
> > daily.

> Now that is starting to look handy, from here how hard is:
> 
> from:
> 
> opengl|devel|esdl
> opengl|devel|mingw-opengl-headers
> opengl|emulators|linux-pete-mesagpu
> opengl|emulators|linux-pete-xgl2gpu
> opengl|games|BillardGL
> opengl|games|airrox
> opengl|games|briquolo
> 
> to 
> 
> Things that use opengll|Things that use java|devel|esdl
> Things that use opengl|Things that use java|devel|mingw-opengl-headers
> Things that use opengl|Things that use java|emulators|linux-pete-mesagpu
> Things that use opengl|Things that use java|emulators|linux-pete-xgl2gpu
> Things that use opengll|Things that don't use java|games|BillardGL
> Things that use opengl|Things don't that use java|games|airrox
> Things that use opengl|Things that don't use java|games|briquolo

Now, it is not particularly difficult to do that, but things WILL
explode in size quite a bit, because, if we just take for example
devel/esdl [where did you get the idea it uses java, anyway?  ;-)], we
will quickly come to

access|devel|esdl
devel|access|esdl
access|library|esdl
devel|library|esdl
library|access|esdl
library|access|esdl
access|opengl|esdl
devel|opengl|esdl
library|opengl|esdl
opengl|access|esdl
opengl|devel|esdl
opengl|library|esdl
access|dsl|esdl
devel|dsl|esdl
library|dsl|esdl
opengl|dsl|esdl
dsl|access|esdl
dsl|devel|esdl
dsl|library|esdl
dsl|opengl|esdl

- only for positives.  Adding negatives here,
we'll have to list every tag which is combined with "devel" and is not
"access" or "library" or "opengl" or "dsl", and say

devel|! abstract|esdl
devel|! column|esdl

So even for two levels, what you ask pretty much does not make a lot of
sense, provided I understood your idea (and please explain in to me one
more time if I did not)!

Or to rephrase: I use an SQL database for a reason in the web front-end.

> People would have to agree to a reasonable depth, I assume your program wants
> to subcategorize a few tags anyways so at least three levels of tags?  If you
> do this I'll put something rough together that for now just prints a listing, 
> later something more useful will come to mind.

> Will you be keeping this database updated on your site for awhile or
> is this just a short term experiment?

The database is going to live there for a while, yes.

\Anton.
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