Re: [Roundup-users] Roundup 0.7 - What's New

[Ralf S. <sch...@tt...>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:00:54PM +1100, Richard Jones wrote:
> ... Here's what's new in 0.7:
> 
>    http://roundup.sourceforge.net/doc-0.7/whatsnew-0.7.html
Great work. 

Just some questions, and please forgive my lazyness to not look at the
code and find out myself in one or two cases:
- in "Typed columns in RDBMS backends" you write 
  > Sqlite got the typing too, but it ignores the datatypes :)
  which is not quite true: If the type is an integer the sorting order
  changes (although the integer is still stored as a string). This fixes
  the problem that users complain if the cannot sort by (or group by)
  properties being number (e.g., id).
- The following might really turn out to be a feature request for 8.0 :-)
  Concerning the sharing of queries: you obviously now allow several
  queries with the same name (by dropping name as the key property). So
  the mechanism to only allow one query of the same name for each user
  is probable in your code now?
  In some cases in might make sense to have keys consisting of more than
  one property -- for example we currently allow *only* private queries
  and it would make sense to have the user *and* the name as the key
  property of the query class. In this way the enforcement of only one
  query of the same name for each user is automatically supported by the
  DB backend (if the backend is capable of keys consisting of several
  attributes).
  Generally: If we have a consistency requirement that objects of some
  class should be unique for some combination of key properties, how
  would you solve this now in roundup (an auditor that checks if there
  already is a property with the given key?)
- Concerning the Outlook bug workaround: From the description in the
  excerpt given, I'd asume the extension to use would be .mht not .eml??
- We would like to move to Postgresql or mysql, is the history now
  exported? We have the requirement to retain the history data.

Ralf
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