Re: Not ready for 8.3

Richard Huxton wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>>> It's been on my list to rewrite the whole archive system for a while
>>>>> for various reasons. There is quite a bit of crossover with the patch
>>>>> tracker I proposed so I was hoping to look at both together.
>>>> Let me know when you start on that...
>>> Roger.
>>
>> Same here - I've done something similar (off mhonarc files and in much
>> smaller scale) before, and I'm definitely interested in helping out.
> 
> Is everyone aware of this system that runs on a well-known open-source
> database?
>   http://www.archiveopteryx.org/
> I've used it in a small way, and while I don't claim to have looked at
> it in detail it seems to pretty much do what it claims to.
> 

Yeah, I looked at it in the past. The database storage part is actually
pretty simple - it's the web front end that's going to take more effort,
and thats what that product doesn't do (or if it does, it's a secondary
function they don't shout about).

Regards, Dave.