Command-line and GUI tools used to maintain the O&A data and to process the additions and changes from each month’s LoAR.
Connections
Imports: Receives LoAR updates in XML format.
Exports: Generates the oanda.db and my.cat files used by the O&A Website.
Technology
Code: Perl.
Databases: SQLite.
Revision Control: All code is stored in Git. The repository is hosted at GitHub: github.com/herveus/Morsulus-tools
Hosting: Runs on the personal home computer of Morsulus.
License: Open, Artistic License.
Team
College Staff: Morsulus Herald — currently Herveus d’Ormonde, transitioning to Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.
History
The title of Morsulus Herald is given to the lead maintainer of the database.
The Morsulus tools were built by:
- Iulstan Sigewealding, 1992–1999
- Herveus d’Ormonde, 2000–
Other contributors:
- Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin, 2019—
Future Work
Web-Based Indexer: The tool currently used for indexing armory runs under XWindows. As of early 2025, Mathghamhain is working on building a web-based replacement for that tool.
See Also
- Mathghamhain’s blog has a section with numerous posts about the O&A database.
- Herveus maintains some documentation at morsulus.org:
- https://www.morsulus.org/foswiki/bin/view (2015–2020)
- https://www.morsulus.org/cgi-data/wiki.pl (2005–2013)