RE: [Bodington-developers] MySQL support now in HEAD

[Sean M. <se...@sm...>]

well, in principle, so what?-)

i mean, who but us is running!-) and if we agreed, well then, new people
wouldn't feel the pain!-)

surely we could provide a little tool to port from old to new.....

where is the great peter crowther. he usually has an (un)informed opinion=
 !-)


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<quote who=3D"Andrew Booth">
> Generalising the schema is a good idea, but bear in mind that we lose
> backward compatibility at that point.
>
> Aggie
>
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> Greetings from flooding Southern California!
>
> Aggie, all sounds +. If the peer marker is contained, then I would thin=
k a
> commit to head would allow for testing and we could see what it does an=
d
> how well.
>
> It could always roll back, non?
>
> I think that Matthew has some strong points here about the MySQL stuff.
> Surely it would be better to generalize and work from the *one* schema!
>
> -s
>
>
> <quote who=3D"Matthew Buckett">
>> Andrew Booth wrote:
>>> I have committed MySQL support to HEAD (documentation in docs).
>>
>> I still feel that having a different database schema for different
>> database products is making a rod for our own backs and changing the
>> tables to:
>> fields -> map_fields
>> objects -> map_objects
>> classes -> map_classes
>>
>> (or other) would be a better soloution in the long run.
>>
>>> Can I have an opinion about committing the peer-marker tool?
>>
>> I liked the tool. Do you have a patch available to look at? Does it
>> change anything outside the new tool?
>>
>>> Also, I have converted the MCQ tool to the new templates and localise=
d
>>> the
>>> text, both template and in-code. Shall I commit it?
>>
>> Did you remove the <building> tags or just convert the page to <xml>?
>>
>> --
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