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Re: Goals for 0.4


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Goals for 0.4
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:07:24 +0200
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address@hidden (Jose E. Marchesi) skribis:

>     I just realized that we can do even better: have --list-generations
>     output recutils-formatted data (using ‘object->fields’).  Then, if we do
>     it right, the output can just be piped to ‘recsel’ to select entries of
>     a certain age, to display specific fields, etc.  Like:
>     
>       generation-number: 1
>       date: 2013-05-07
>     
>     However, I don’t know exactly how to represent both the generations and
>     the list of packages in each generation in a single recutils stream.
>     
>     José, how can the relations between “generation” records and “package”
>     records be expressed?
>
> You can have two record sets: one for generations, one for packages.  A
> foreign key can relate them.  Something like this:

Perfect, thanks!

Ludo’.



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