Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

[Jan Morén <jan moren lucs lu se>]

tis 2004-04-06 klockan 03.29 skrev jamie:
> > PostgreSQL too. You can write stored procedures in whatever language
> > that produces callable-from-C shared objects, Java, PL/PgSQL, Ruby, Perl
> > and some more.

[Discussion on relative DB features]

> IMO, for a novice user wanting a no nonsense RDBMS with minimal
> maintenance Firebird easily beats Postgres. Feel free to prove otherwise
> - a proper and fair evaluation of installing postgres/firebird and the
> issues surrounding them should reveal which is most appropriate.

Assuming that we need an RDBMS for Gnome at all (not a given), the last
thing we should do is "standardize" (= impose) on one.

First, they are, to a point, more or less interoperable. There is not
much reason to force the use of one particular implementation. Second,
apparently this is "holy war" material (who would have thought?), so we
don't want to step in to another conflict.

Third, and practically, if I already have a DB installed and running for
other reasons (MySQL, just for the sake of discussion), the last thing I
want is to have to care and feed _another_ DB server just because people
on d-d-l had different preferences.

Let Markus run Postgres, let Jamie run Firebird, let me run MySQL, and
perhaps have SQlite as the default, built-in provider in case no DB is
actually installed by the user?


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