Re: [Bug-gnupedia] A Detailed Proposal - Mk I

[Mike Warren]

Hector Facundo Arena <address@hidden> writes:

> > This is EXACTLY where the MySQL/Perl Solution would be perfect.
> > All the data would be stored in the Database, and all the
> > presentation could all be handled by the perl when accessed.

> I agree, but we have not the resources for making it viable. I'm not
> sure if we can host a MySQL server on the GNU servers.

I'm not convinced that a database is even needed initially; a directory
of XML files which are the unique-IDs would work. Then, one can access
the XML directly by doing:

  http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/data/unique-id-of-article.xml

and let the Web server do what it's good at: serving files. At some
later date, it might be desirable to have an actual database, but I
can't really see the advantage except for locking issues when writing
to the files, but this could just be simply
``id-of-article.xml.lock''.

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