Re: Making it easier on translators

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Joakim Ziegler <joakim@helixcode.com> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:45:26PM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> >> If you thing as I do that this that I said is a real problem and that
> >> what I proposed may be a good solution, I will start working on such a
> >> system that I want to do using: Perl, PhP3 (or 4) and Postgresql. I
> >> already have some people willing to help me with this so I think it
> >> would not take too long to have it ready.
>  
> > Joakim, does any of these run on the widget.gnome.org machine?  What
> > could Hector use on widget.gnome.org to get things going?
> 
> PHP and Perl are already installed. PostgreSQL isn't, since we use mySQL at
> the moment. It's mainly been Elliot and Owen (I think) doing the sysadmining
> on widget, so I guess the question of getting PostgreSQL installed would be
> up to them.

I don't like this very much.

As I see the situation, you (Hector) just need a SQL database so it doesn't
make any difference which particular implementation we're using on the server
side (I don't know about PHP, but in Perl you can use the DBI module which
allows you to use the same code to access any SQL database).

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