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- @(#)IDEAS 1.1 6/1/89
- What follows is my ideas file. It gives you a glimse into some enhancements,
- ideas, problems and work in progress for rkive. This is a minimal list but
- it will grow after you send me your good ideas. :-)
-
- 1. If a posting should replace the current entry it is the moderator's
- responsibility to Supersedes: any invalid postings. rkive should
- be able to handle Supersedes. Currently it does not.
-
- 2. Add Support For Multiple Archive Formats.
- Have rkive link the files into a different archiving format.
- All articles should be storable in *as many* of the user-requested
- formats as possible.
-
- 3. Add internal method of numbering the articles. A *new* method of archiving.
- If the archive is moved to a different machine running news or if the
- news subsystem is restarted from scratch on the same machine, it could
- conflict with previously archived articles in archives that use
- Article-Number, thus producing massive amounts of duplicate archive
- files in which the only problem is the file names.
-
- 4. Add a Configure.sh to handle configuration of default parameters
- and to setup the software.
-
- 5. Better and more extensive documentation as well as documentation
- that explains archiving in general.
-
- 6. Remote archive BASEDIRs. This would allow the archive to be scattered
- over multiple machines connected via a LAN. With the use of rsh, rcp,
- etc., this should not be too hard. It would require the configuration
- file usage to be expanded so that the admin could specify the method
- for storing. (builtin versus rcp versus user supplied program) The
- BASEDIR variable usage would also have to be expanded so that it
- understood "machine:directory-path" formatting. BEWARE of security
- concerns here.... :-( A generic hook to user-defined storage
- programs/libraries. I am wide open to ideas here... :-)
-
- 7. An application that would allow retrieval requests from the archives
- by reading the rkive.cf file to determine the location of the
- newsgroup's archive and to retrieve packages by any of the archive
- methods. This may end up using software like narc to actually do
- the unpacking for the requester. This too is just an idea now...
-
- 8. An application that would allow retrieval requests from the archives
- for patches or entire packages including all posted patches. This is
- currently in progress... :-) The mythical "random downloader" :-)
-
- Well that's the direction I am heading... If you have *any* additional
- ideas that are constructive, positive or negative (flames to /nev/dull)
- I will be glad to hear from you.
-
- Good luck and Happy archiving...:-)
- kent@ssbell
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