client for h-node.com

[p]An h-node.com client could be used in order to access the h-node.com xml database and automatically check the compatibility of the own hardware with free software. It could be a simple library used through the terminal or a complete program with a nice GUI in order to browse the hardware and interact with h-node.com. Perhaps it could be also used to submit new hardware to h-node.com.[/p]

[p]This work could be a good starting point: http://www.h-node.com/source/ht/ismyhwok_25thSep2010-1.tar.gz[/p] [b]http://www.h-node.com/source/ht/ismyhwok_25thSep2010-1.tar.gz[/b][/p]

[p]The first goal is to write a library in order to parse the xml database and automatically check the hardware compatibility with free software. It could be written in Python or C/C++, or both. Something like:[/p]

[p][b]Python[/b]:[/p]

[code]browse = Client()
browse.set_database('http://www.h-node.com/download/all/en');
browse.parse()
browse.set_output_format('xml');
browse.set_output_file('result.xml');
browse.check_compatibility(); #done by also parsing the lspci output[/code]

[p]The library should also alert the user if his hardware is not present inside the h-node.com database and ask the user to insert the missing hardware[/p]