Re: Not ready for 8.3

Dave Page wrote:
> 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).

It's supposed to have something in the latest version, I think. I used 
it as backing store for a small workflow app, so I've got some simple 
views/functions I added and PHP code (cake-php framework) for displaying 
messages if it'll be of any use.

My one concern with the schema was that there didn't seem to be a way to 
partition archives (e.g. by year) to make maintenance a little simpler 
for large databases.

--   Richard Huxton  Archonet Ltd