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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01.57, Brian Jackson wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 05:58 pm, Henti Smith wrote: |
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> > On 24 Jun 2003 16:04:58 -0700 |
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> > jesse <yoda@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > isn't db a system lib .. and installed on every machine ? |
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> > > > |
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> > > > can't you just use that ? |
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> > > My proposition was to use some connector lib that is compatable with |
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> > > all those db formats. so you don't have to re-write a bunch of backend |
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> > > drivers or DB specific queries. Im not a python programmer C/Perl are |
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> > > my main forte, and you can use DBI to interface with many many db's as |
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> > > long as you keep your queries db agnostic, and use the dbi methods. At |
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> > > least with postgresql, mysql, and oracle to (some extent) this is the |
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> > > case. |
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> > but since the db system is already part of the default system, why not |
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> > just use that. It's really a system function .. and I knwo th |
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> > "selectable" databse of choice is a nice to have but do we (gentoo) |
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> > really want people to run different DB's for portage backend stuff .. and |
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> > handle the bug tracking hell that will result because of it ? |
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> I don't think that would scale well(sure a couple of boxes, but I'm |
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> probably going to have over ten by the end of the year, and if it scales |
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> well enough, that would be a boon for cluster environments where there can |
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> be thousands of nodes). I like the idea of having many backends available. |
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> That way, people could use whatever suited their environment. Aside from |
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> that the libs you are talking about are c libs. If this project aims to be |
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> included as part of portage at some point, it needs to be written in |
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> portage's native language. I think python has some basic db lib interface |
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> built in, I don't know about mysql/postgres/etc. |
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I know SFA about python and see an initial implementation in perl as the |
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fastest way to get something going at least for me. |
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