Allowing sharing a database (was Re: extragear/multimedia/amarok/src)

[Bart Cerneels]

> On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Tobias G. Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Tuesday 02 October 2007, 10:53, Maximilian Kossick wrote:
> > > Isn't the current playlist supposed to be stored in the db anyway?
> >
> > Would that mean that multiple clients sharing the same database (e.g. via
> > MySQL) always had the same playlist? Is that intended?
> >
> > Bye
> > Tobias
>>
2007/10/2, Maximilian Kossick <mkossick at gmx.de>:
> Do we actually want to support sharing a database?  i know that we can't
> prevent our users from doing that if we continue to support mysql or
> postgres. We still have to decide which databases we are going to support in
> 2.0.
>
Sharing a SQL database, no.
Sharing a Collection on a remote share, yes.
Thanks to your collection framework maxx_k all of this should be possible, true?

I wouldn't support mysql/progressql either for 2.0 or even ever,
certainly not on OSX and Windows. We just don't have enough control
over it. We are going to be swamped with bug reports already, let's
not add to the madness with another unknown factor in the equation.

Bart