From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18011 invoked by uid 1002); 24 Jun 2003 23:10:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13347 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2003 23:10:54 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:58:42 +0200 From: Henti Smith To: jesse Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030625005842.2fa0796c.bain@tcsn.co.za> In-Reply-To: <1056495898.25716.35.camel@prefect.f00bar.com> References: <200306250000.00937.tclark@telia.com> <1056492971.20027.5.camel@prefect.f00bar.com> <1056495162.17034.0.camel@alita> <20030625003625.30ebd0c4.bain@tcsn.co.za> <1056495898.25716.35.camel@prefect.f00bar.com> Organization: tcsn X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database. X-Archives-Salt: 3c5669c7-37ec-4606-87fb-3b96af7d080e X-Archives-Hash: 9482fcc3a527096701b1e7bc9c120345 On 24 Jun 2003 16:04:58 -0700 jesse wrote: > > isn't db a system lib .. and installed on every machine ? > > > > can't you just use that ? > > My proposition was to use some connector lib that is compatable with all > those db formats. so you don't have to re-write a bunch of backend > drivers or DB specific queries. Im not a python programmer C/Perl are my > main forte, and you can use DBI to interface with many many db's as long > as you keep your queries db agnostic, and use the dbi methods. At least > with postgresql, mysql, and oracle to (some extent) this is the case. but since the db system is already part of the default system, why not just use that. It's really a system function .. and I knwo th "selectable" databse of choice is a nice to have but do we (gentoo) really want people to run different DB's for portage backend stuff .. and handle the bug tracking hell that will result because of it ? -- Henti Smith bain@tcsn.co.za Senior Administrator The Computer-Smith Networking http://www.tcsn.co.za -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list