Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database.

[Tony Clark <tclark@telia.com>]

On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01.57, Brian Jackson wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 05:58 pm, Henti Smith wrote:
> > On 24 Jun 2003 16:04:58 -0700
> >
> > jesse <yoda@f00bar.com> 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 ?
>
> I don't think that would scale well(sure a couple of boxes, but I'm
> probably going to have over ten by the end of the year, and if it scales
> well enough, that would be a boon for cluster environments where there can
> be thousands of nodes). I like the idea of having many backends available.
> That way, people could use whatever suited their environment. Aside from
> that the libs you are talking about are c libs. If this project aims to be
> included as part of portage at some point, it needs to be written in
> portage's native language. I think python has some basic db lib interface
> built in, I don't know about mysql/postgres/etc.

I know SFA about python and see an initial implementation in perl as the 
fastest way to get something going at least for me.

tony

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