Multiple Databases [WAS: Re: Junior Job - external MySQL config]

[Casper van Donderen]

There even are official cross-platform binary zip-files, so for Win & Mac it
will be also pretty easy to switch. :-D
Casper

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Modestas Vainius<modestas at vainius.eu>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On sekmadienis 30 Rugpjūtis 2009 11:28:43 Seb Ruiz wrote:
> >> 2009/8/30 Modestas Vainius <modestas at vainius.eu>:
> >> > You are forgetting that people might already have a database server in
> >> > place. Since MySQL and PostgreSQL are both free software, not
> supporting
> >> > them both "by design" will make some people unhappy (esp. since it a
> >> > feature regression from 1.4). People won't switch database servers for
> >> > Amarok and it is more likely they will dump Amarok. On the other hand,
> >> > you don't have to implement something you are not interested in, just
> >> > don't close the doors for somebody to come and do it.
> >>
> >> This argument leads to a giant black hole: it does not have to be
> >> implemented because it's free, and a patch does not have to be
> >> accepted because it has been provided. At the end of the day we need
> >> to make a decision which is "for the betterment of the project" - even
> >> if that means rejecting great code because it is clear that it will
> >> become bitrotted due to lack of maintainership. (This is not directly
> >> related to the multidb argument, btw)
> >
> > I don't see how getting tied to one database solution will make your life
> > easier to switch when "a better solution arrives".
>
> We add the new db, drop the old DB. Its not so difficult to understand.
>
> And regardless its all going to be 100% configuration free, 95% of
> users won't even know they are running a database, and less will know
> which kind of database.
>
> Ian
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