[PD] Can't get any results from PDB

[Jamie Bullock]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:28:39 +0200
IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:

> Phil Stone wrote:
> > Sometime in the last few months, PDB has stopped working for me.  No 
> > matter what query I type, I get no results.  The [ALL EXTERNALS WITH 
> > COMPLETE ENTIRES] link gives a 404.  I know this used to work, and I've 
> > seen people talking about pdb like it still works, so what gives?  Is 
> > there some basic browser setting I've munged?  I'm using Firefox, on 
> > both XP and Tiger.,
> 
> 
> oops, this is my fault: the database is actually down.
> (we had a hardware-failure and re-installed everything from scratch; the 
> database should have been backuped, however it did not go online again)
> 
> the reason why i was reluctant to get it up again in the second place 
> (first were pressing things to do), is that i would very much prefer to 
> get the entire database onto puredata.info AND in a different form, 
> where people can submit there "objects" in their homedirectories and 
> they would get automatically added to the list of objects.
> 
> most likely we can just use keywords for this (just like with the "pd-art");
> we are open to any suggestions how to do it better and even more open to 
> people who are able and willing to implement such features in the 
> existing zope/plone framework.
> 
I've always been a big fan of the PDB, but I guess, such a resourse is only useful if it is current, accurate, and relatively exhaustive. Two options for integrating into the puredata site are either to use archetypes ('object' and 'libary' or something like that), or to build the PDB out of the CVS repository. Perhaps a combination of the two might work. I would be willing to contribute to developing such a resource, as I am currently doing a similar thing for a different project, but I wouldn't be able to do it any time soon.

Jamie