Status of mysqle

[Casey Link]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 27, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/27/08, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 14:34, Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Jeff Mitchell
>>>>> <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Anyone know the current status?  If we're ever going to use mysqle
>>>>>> instead of sqlite, we should be doing so before 2.0 hits, or it
>>>>>> will be
>>>>>> quite difficult to change later.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be a very bad idea to change now, with us getting well into
>>>>> the beta cycle.  We should stick with what we know works for 2.0.
>>>>
>>>> I agree. Changing it now is meh :/
>>>> Edward was looking into it all but he seems to be MIA :(
>>>> I hope he returns sooner rather than later.
>>>>
>>>> I think we have no choice but to delay it at least until 2.1. Sucks.
>>>> Other opinions?
>>>
>>> I agree as well.
>>
>> At this point, i think we really have no other option. We can;t
>> introduce such a massive change as that between betas....
>>
>
> As long as the change comes soon-ish. Users with large collections (me
> included) suffer greatly when forced to use sqllite.
>
> Also, there is another feature regresion that I haven't seen mentioned
> yet. With 2.0 users won't be able to share their collections across
> multiple computers while keeping their collection database on one
> machine. And the answer to this isn't "Use ampache", because (1)
> Ampache is much more overhead (php, httpd, etc), (2) the Ampache
> service isn't a fully supported collection in terms of the Query
> Maker. That is, Ampache tracks can't be used universally in playlists,
> dynamic playlists, etc.
>
> Casey
>


Browsing the amarok list I found the thread "Amarok support of MySQL Embedded"
It looks like someone has already (sortof) gotten mysqle working.