[Haskell-cafe] ANN: filestore 0.1

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Gwern,

Sunday, January 25, 2009, 2:56:07 AM, you wrote:

my usual complaint: it will be great to see all announces duplicated
in main haskell list

> ANN filestore 0.1

> We are pleased to announce the first release of a new library, filestore.

> What is it?  filestore provides a uniform, abstract, generic interface for
> storing versioned files on disk.  It allows calling programs to use generic
> commands to store strings or binary data and perform various queries,
> such as 'what files are in this repository?' or 'what were the contents
> of this file at revision XXXXXXX?' or 'give me a diff of this file between
> revision XXXXXXX and revision YYYYYYY.'  Because the interface is abstract,
> the calling program is insulated from the messy details of the backend
> (which might be a VCS or a database).

> What backends are supported? Darcs and Git are fully supported. There are
> plans for a SQLite backend.

> What is this good for? Currently it is used by two wikis, Gitit and
> Orchid. We hope it will see use in other applications as well that
> need to version data and would like the various advantages of DVCSs
> (such as easy collaboration, advanced merging, etc.).

> Where can you get it? Your local cabal-install, Hackage at
> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/filestore
> and of course you can do 'darcs get
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/repos/filestore' for the very latest.

> filestore was written by John MacFarlane, Gwern Branwen, and Sebastiaan Visser




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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com