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@cindex pony quote infrastructure
@cindex quote infrastructure
When compiling, pony quotes are built to @file{quotes/}, the file names are
lists of ponies joined with plus signs (@code{+}) -- the pony names are the
same as the pony files, except they do not end with @file{.pony} -- with a
index at the end, and a full stop (@code{.}) before the index.
When compiling, two indices for the pony quotes are built. These indices
are dbm databases; if you have gdbm, which you probably have, python will
using gdbm. If you later uninstall gdbm, you will have to reinstall ponysay
so it is built without, gdbm.
The source files are located in @file{ponyquotes/}, where their is a file named
@file{ponies}. This file is called the pony map, and is the basis for how the
compiled files are named. In the ponymap ponies with the same quotes are on the
same line join together with plus signs (@code{+}), if the lines because too
long for file names the line is split into multiple lines with the first pony
in common.
Prior to version 3.1 of ponysay, there was a @file{ponies} in @file{ponyquotes/}
where all ponies are group to gather with plus signs (@code{+}), to identify
which quotes belong to which pony files, because the quote files just hade
the first ponys' name before compilation.
In @file{ponyquotes/} there are also quote files, each contain just one quote,
just as when compiled to @file{quotes/}. The source quote files are identical
to the compiled quote files, except that their name contains just the first
pony.
Since version 3.1 of ponysay, the group is instead saved in index databases,
and built from the pony file metadata tag @code{MASTER}.
The previous solution has some disadvantages:
@itemize @bullet
@item
It was not as fast a pony name was needed to be searched for in a all
quote file names.
@item
Was not as flexible for selection another algorithm for randomly selecting
a pony and a quote.
@item
@file{ponyquotes/ponies} was manually edited when a new pony as added,
altough this could have been solved without changing anything in the
installed files. This just happened to be solved at the same time.
@item
Pinkie Pie had so many images that the resolution quote files' names
were to long and quotes had to be duplicated. And Pinkie Pie became
even more likely to be randomly selected.
@end itemize
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