Suggested changes to allow opening database from byte slice

[oxtoacart]

I want to run a geolocating service on Heroku, which doesn't have a durable filesystem, so I'd like to actually just fetch the maxmind database from the network at startup and read it into memory. To this end, it's useful to be able to initialize maxminddb (and geoip2) from a byte slice.

I wasn't able to get gocheck to install because of a bzr/Python installation issue, so I can't actually verify that the test runs, but I'm guessing it will.

[oxtoacart]

Once oschwald/maxminddb-golang#1 is processed, this should continue to point at oschwald.

[oschwald]

Thanks! I merged your two PRs (except the metro_code commit). I decided to rename OpenBytes to FromBytes as the latter sounded a bit better to my ears.

[oxtoacart]

Thanks!

Cheers,
Ox

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• Marge Piercy

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Gregory Oschwald
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Closed #1 #1.

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[oschwald]

I've re-enabled MetroCode as the issue was fixed by MaxMind.

[oxtoacart]

Nice!

Cheers,
Ox

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"I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again."

• Marge Piercy

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Gregory Oschwald
notifications@github.comwrote:

I've re-enabled MetroCode as the issue was fixed by MaxMind.

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