<div dir="ltr"><div>Awesome work Phil.</div><div><br></div><div>+1 to git-hub; although a lack of graphical windows-box client used to be an issue; but a bit of googling I can see that <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/" target="_blank">TortoiseGIT</a> is now fairly well progressed. So perhaps not so much of an issue anymore.</div>
<div> </div>Also, I'll offer my .Net library, but it is rather broken at the moment....<div><br></div><div>Iain</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Don Jackson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:freebase-dev@clark-communications.com">freebase-dev@clark-communications.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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1) My prayers for an updated perl client have been answered, thank you<br>
Philip!<br>
<br>
2) Strongly second Kirrily's github suggestion. That would be a great<br>
place to host this code....<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Don<br>
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On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:<br>
<br>
> I would strongly advocate github. Internally, we've been talking<br>
> about making a Freebase project there and making libraries for various<br>
> languages part of it. What do you (plural, dev list generally) think<br>
> of that?<br>
><br>
> K.<br>
><br>
> On 09/07/2009, at 2:50 PM, Tom Morris wrote:<br>
><br>
>> If you guys can get it up on github or Google Code or someplace<br>
>> similar it will be a lot easier to collaborate on it with others.<br>
>><br>
>> Tom<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Kirrily Robert<<a href="mailto:kirrily@metaweb.com">kirrily@metaweb.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>> This is awesome, Phil! I would be happy to hand over CPAN<br>
>>> maintainership of the module to you. You should definitely make it<br>
>>> available via CPAN. If you're not familiar with that process, I can<br>
>>> help you out.<br>
>>><br>
>>> K.<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 09/07/2009, at 1:51 PM, Philip Kendall wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> All,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I can't make hack day due to being on the wrong side of the<br>
>>>> Atlantic, so<br>
>>>> I'll give up my little offering now for anyone interested...<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away (OK, actually 10 Sep<br>
>>>> 2007), an<br>
>>>> intrepid coder called Kirrily "Skud" Robert (you may have heard of<br>
>>>> her)<br>
>>>> released the Metaweb Perl module for interfacing with this a new<br>
>>>> site called "Freebase".<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Then not much happened, other than JSON::XS changed its API so the<br>
>>>> module no longer works without a quick hack.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> One thing I've had going on the back burner is an updated version<br>
>>>> of<br>
>>>> Metaweb.pm, and now seems as good a time as any to get it out<br>
>>>> there.<br>
>>>> Brief highlights of my changes:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> * Use new JSON::XS API<br>
>>>> * Full cookie support (mwLastWriteTime now works)<br>
>>>> * New search, touch and trans methods, which map through to the<br>
>>>> appropriate Freebase services<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> That's about it. The documentation's lacking in areas. Please feel<br>
>>>> very<br>
>>>> free to hack on it at Hack Day and come up with something better.<br>
>>>> Blame<br>
>>>> me for all bugs, not Kirrily.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a href="http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/Metaweb.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/Metaweb.tar.gz</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Cheers,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Phil<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> --<br>
>>>> Philip Kendall <<a href="mailto:philip@shadowmagic.org.uk">philip@shadowmagic.org.uk</a>><br>
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>>> Freebase Community Director<br>
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