extragear/multimedia/amarok/src

[Jeff Mitchell]

Bart Cerneels wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Maximilian Kossick
> <maximilian.kossick at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Why was this committed without proper support for database updates in
>> SqlCollection? I nearly freaked out when I saw the upgradeVersion1to2
>> method in DatabaseUpdater. Does anybody here remember the mess that is
>> A1's database update code? Do we really want to start down the same
>> path again?
>>
> 
> A also don't want the upgrade mess again. However, I've added db
> upgrade functions like you describe to the SqlPodcasts because there
> was no upgrade framework in place. The DatabaseUpdater seems to be
> limited to support SqlCollection only, yet we store a lot more then
> the basic meta types in the database. So we need a more generic
> database-updater. I have investigated the problem, but realized I need
> more knowledge and experience for something like that. I must say I
> really like the system quassel uses, but that is radically different.

Could you explain this system?  It may be very different, but it doesn't
(necessarily) mean we couldn't make it work for us.  Or maybe it
does...but since I don't know the scheme, I have no idea  :-)

--Jeff