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author | Benjamin Saller <bcsaller@objectrealms.net> | 2007-04-27 22:20:27 (GMT) |
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committer | Benjamin Saller <bcsaller@objectrealms.net> | 2007-04-27 22:20:27 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07f6ed4 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Datastore +--------- + +A simple log like datastore able to connect with multiple +backends. The datastore supports connectionig and disconnecting from +backends on the fly to help the support the limit space/memory +characteristics of the OLPC system and the fact that network services +may become unavailable at times + +API +--- + +For developer information see the doc tests in: + + src/olpc/datastore/tests/query.txt + + +Dependencies +------------ + +sqlalchemy -- database connectivity + +xapian -- integrated full text indexing + svn co svn://svn.xapian.org/xapian/trunk xapian + currently this requires a checkout + +pyxapian -- Python bindings + svn co svn://svn.xapian.org/xapian/trunk xapian + the lemur package must be installed + +sqllite -- metadata database tuned to work in embedded systems + +dbus -- command and control + +Converters +---------- +(used to index binaries) + +odt2txt http://stosberg.net/odt2txt/ +pdftotext from poppler-utils +abiword/write + +Future Directions +----------------- + +see NOTES.txt + +Benjamin Saller +Copyright ObjectRealms, LLC. 2007 |