[lojban] Re: Is massive upload to Jbovlaste possible?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 10:17:14PM +0400, Dmitry Shintyakov wrote:
> 2008/7/4 Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:26:20PM +0400, Dmitry Shintyakov
> > wrote:
> 
> >> translations was really tedious process. I would better like to
> >> upload all the data at once. Can anybody help me with it?
> >
> > Yes, this is possible.  In the past, I've been the only one to
> > write the code; I'd love if someone else did it this time.  I
> > can supply the code that was used to upload the English gismu
> > list as an example; it's in Perl.
> 
> It would be very kind of you, to send me that script.

http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell/media/regular/jvs_import/

There's all the snarf (import) scripts, a gismu list that was
imported with them, and the current schema.

> Interface of jbovlaste seems to be changed a lot since last time I
> saw it, and the script, probably, needs to be upgraded, am I
> right?

I doubt it, actually; the word definitions haven't changed much.

> Actually, I had a hope that keeper of jbovlaste can manually merge
> data, 

The keeper is only me, and I'm very, very busy lately; I don't have
much time for Lojbanic things.  I'd love for other people to work on
jbovlaste, but no-one does.

> prepared by me with jbovlaste database, but upload script is also
> fine thing too.

Merging two databases is hard; referential integrity gets very
tricky.  All you should really have to do, though, is give me lists
in the same format as the official gismu and cmavo lists.

> I am also afraid that debugging this script can produce several
> spurious entries in database. This is one of reasons why I tried
> to avoid making such script by myself.

Sure, but that's an easy thing to deal with for me: shut everything
off, take a backup of the database, work until the script is
correct, restore the backup, run the script, turn things back on.

-Robin

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