Copy_to is on your 2.0 list then? What's the time frame for 2.0?
Barry
On May 1, 2004, at 20:57, Branko Čibej wrote:
John Peacock wrote:
>
>> Barry Scott wrote:
>>
>>>> If you come up with a brilliant way to determine and populate that
>>>> copyto info, you just let me know.
>>>>
>>> So its a good idea, but its hard to implement?
>>>
>>> How do you populate the copy_from list? Isn't the copy_to list the
>>> same
>>> problem? On a copy you have to record the copy_to info on the src
>>> and copy_from in the dest.
>>
>>
>> I think part of the issue is that copy_from is a one-to-one
>> relationship (a file can only be copied from one file). copy_to,
>> however, is potentially one-to-many, which complicates the storage on
>> the source (since you have to track each and every copy_to). A
>> single file could potentially be used as the source for every other
>> file in the repository, so you'd have to have an way of storing a
>> limitless number of copy_to pointers in a way that wouldn't be slow
>> to add new values.
>
> That's not so hard to do if you use indexes.
>
>> It's also something that would mean the repository format would
>> change completely,
>
> Not "completely", but incompatibly. Adding forward pointers to the
> schema is on my list for 2.0.
>
>> plus I don't know how difficult it would be to recreate the copy_to
>> list during conversion. It would require at least one extra pass
>> through the data to read the copy_from's and intuit the copy_to's.
>
> Now that's simple. If you can reproduce every copy during a dump/load,
> then obviously you can populate all copy-from and copy-to data.
>
> -- Brane
>
>
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