SQL backend consolidation

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Thu Aug 16 17:35:15 CEST 2007


On 8/16/07, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> On 8/15/07, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> > I think postgres support is a really awesome thing to have, and I know
> > of many people that use it. What is the advantage to dropping it,
> > aside from the obvious cop out that it is less to maintain?
>
> Its not a cop-out at all, Mark has already addressed this though.

Oh, there is another important argument that I forgot to mention:
Currently Amarok cannot convert databases from SQLite to MySQL and so
on. So we require the user to select the database type in the wizard,
which really sucks.

Supporting only one database would inherently solve this issue ;)

-- 
Mark


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