On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:10:43PM +0200, Rene Wilhelm wrote:
But after reading your recent mails and having started work on importing RIS raw in a SG project, I see there's a fundamental change (at least for RIB dumps):
Yes, that's true. Updates are indeed pretty much the same.
To me it looks strange, seems to make programmer's life needlessly more complicated. Now one not only has to loop over all bgpdump_read_next records, but also loop over all entries in each "record".Programs which worked with old raw data will need major revision;
It's a bit more work, yes. It would be additional work anyways. And IMHO, with the provided examples, it's really not hard at all.
Do you have any idea of the reasons behind this big change?
Yes. 38M Mar 28 08:00 /export/data1/rawdata/2007.03/bview.20070328.0800.gz 21M Mar 28 16:00 /export/data1/rawdata/2007.03/bview.20070328.1600.gz (rrc03) cheers, -- Erik Romijn RIPE NCC jr. software engineer http://www.ripe.net/ Information Services dept.