23 May
2014
23 May
'14
3:54 p.m.
On 23 mei 2014, at 15:43, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel(a)me.com> wrote:
As you know, the moose team is full of passionated and
happy people willing to analyze software.
We have great platforms to carry out analysis that are robust enough to compete with
state-of-the-Art software analysis platforms out there.
It would be great to have software to feed our wonderful tools. There are 123 873
packages on Smalltalkhub (!). Can we have easily access to them? I mean, a big big big
.zip file would be fantastic with all the public software.
Well yes. DeprecationFinder on smalltalkhub has most of what you need. It is missing the
teams as an entry point, though.
If you want to find out the interface to smalltalkhub, there is the smalltalkhub ci image
on pharo-contributions.
DeprecationFinder only loads the latest versions of packages, but that is a trivial
extension.
I'm not sure how much rate-limiting is needed, but you should *not* run without
rate-limiting. You touch the whole
database, so not only is there copying from mongo to pharo input buffer to pharo output
buffer going on,
but most of the pages containing older versions of packages will be swapped out to disk.
You might want to consider just creating a local mirror of smalltalkhub. It seems to be
easy to set up.
Stephan