[foaf-protocols] remarks and questions about libAuthentication

[Toby Inkster]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 15:27 +0100, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
> the dependancy on ARC2 seems to require a MySQL database, which is
> quite a strong requirement... 

It's certainly possible to use ARC2's parsers and serialisers without a
database. I think libAuthentication uses's ARC2's SPARQL though, which
is implemented as a SPARQL-to-SQL layer, so needs a database. (And uses
some proprietary MySQL syntax, so it won't work with other databases.)

As I remember, the stuff libAuthentication uses SPARQL for it all fairly
basic - the same information could be gleaned by walking over the arrays
ARC2 parses RDF into. Perhaps removing the SPARQL (and thus MySQL
dependency) in libAuthentication would make a good student project?

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