[PD] Can't get any results from PDB

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Fri Apr 28 09:44:17 CEST 2006


On Apr 27, 2006, at 7:35 PM, Jamie Bullock wrote:

> 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.


It would be awesome to build PDB from meta data embedded in help  
patches.  Any help would be appreciated.

.hc

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