Re: [PATCH] gnu: kyotocabinet (new variable)

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Nils Gillmann <niasterisk@grrlz.net> writes:

> Appended as explantion:
>
> Please disregard the last 2 emails on this patch.
>
> Explanatory part:
> I also have almost no idea how to describe it in a better way, I
> just need this as a dependency for panopticon.
> From my point of view, using the patch i did send on this (with 2
> additional comments) will work, somebody with more knowledge
> about databases can later fix the description, because it's just
> not my interest and mainly because it's not easy to find out
> after looking at the website and tarball. it's a database..

Actually, the website contains a workable description under “Overview”:

    Kyoto Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The
    database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of
    a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable
    length. Both binary data and character string can be used as a key
    and a value. Each key must be unique within a database. There is
    neither concept of data tables nor data types. Records are organized
    in hash table or B+ tree.

I see that your description is just the first sentence of this
explanation:

    Kyoto Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database.

I think something like this would be sufficient:

    Kyoto Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database.  The
    database is a simple data file containing key value pairs.  Both
    binary data and character string can be used for keys and values.
    Records are organized in a hash table or B+ tree.

What do you think?

~~ Ricardo