[x3d-public] Command-line/ant database client?

[John Carlson]

Seeking better tools: irritated too.   We have ways to get text, image,
price/product, math, geo and video results from a search engine, but not
meshes, graphs, systems (do we have good ways to make systems searchable?),
and networks, except for social connections, perhaps.   Where are 3, 4 and
fractional dimensional results?  I’m aware of what Princeton has shown with
shapes.   I think the main issue may be we don’t have good ways to query
such things…neo4j query language perhaps?  GraphQL?  Are there demos on the
web?  SPARQL?   Where are the VR results?

What ways are there to search across the 3D web?  Can I search for 3D house
models?   Net-lists? How can the web be better oriented for 3D search?
What if we could develop something for searching Minecraft servers?

What is the equivalent of grep for 3D?   Is there a better X3D encoding for
searching?  I’m aware of metadata.   Say I want to pull all <Shape>’s out
of a file system or remote folder and display/browse or save them?   How do
I grep STL files?

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For bash-sql

I agree, Don, seems like the best approach is to keep a log of test
results, but I don’t know if I should create a separate script or not.
That is, maintain a script for transient results in addition to a script
that keeps results in version control for comparison.

I looked into GitHub Actions for a bit, I’m not sure if I can introduce a
custom shell script that  takes a lot of CPU time.

I don’t really like databases anyway—I don’t have the mindset for it.   If
there was a good integration between bash and SQL I might be more
interested.   I assume that power-shell might have something, but I’m not
sure of cross platform compatibility.

Note: both vim and emacs have database integrations.

I guess I could write my own scripting language?  Hmm.    What are people
missing from their current environments?

Does Tcl or Ant do pipelines?  I guess include/exclude may solve that issue.

Perhaps it’s time for me to write up some requirements to go shopping for a
different environment.

I haven’t bought into the graphical IDE mindset at the moment.  I’m not
sure why.  Perhaps if I could grep and find across web pages easily (wget?
curl? lynx?).  I know eclipse has a way to search across files.

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I’m sorry I’m such a noob.

John

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 11:00 AM Don Brutzman <brutzman at nps.edu> wrote:

> On 6/17/2021 6:35 PM, John Carlson wrote:
> > Anyone know of a command-line database client?
>
> dozens, see Vince email
>
> > Are you interested in a possible ant integration, Don?
>
> no, they require a lot of upkeep and break or get garbled over time
>
> XML and catalogs preferred, inspectable and doesn't break.
>
> even better is consistent file naming and directory structures, ant just
> handles that.  see our 4000 examples.
>
> > I will be using it for inserting and selecting test results.   It should
> probably keep track of test runs, for example.
>
> if you wish - no problem with that, but not advisable as a shared resource.
>
> all the best, Don
> --
> Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br
> brutzman at nps.edu
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