Re: Many backends (WAS: Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Wiki spam and the future of phpwiki)

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake Dan Frankowski:
> 
> See, I completely disagree. Why keep flatfile and cvs and dba? I've seen 
> Reini wasting time answering people who email the list, "Probably dba is 
> not installed on your system" etc. Why not just keep ONE of flatfile, 
> cvs and dba? Why keep all 3? You have not made a strong case.

The primary problem with dba is that some Linux distros' default builds of
PHP no longer come with dba support compiled in. That problem could mostly
be solved by including a note on how to rebuild PHP with dba support. (It's
really really easy, if you have a distro with package management.)

There's a huge performance hit if we force everyone not using an SQL server
to use flatfile; nor do I think that we want to force everyone to use an SQL
server. That's why I think we should keep both dba and flatfile.

As for the cvs backend, do we have a documented case of anyone using it?
I wouldn't object to dropping that one if we don't.