On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:41:40AM -0600, Robert Pearse wrote: > hey there, > > I like this alot! How wonderful that a Escient's new license was posted > yesterday on ./ and today we have a GPL alternative! > > However, I have some concerns about the choice of MySQL. Actually, it's not > the choice of MySQL, but it's the choice of *any* database. There database > schema should be simple enough to work on a multiple of databases. What if a > site wishes to be a node, yet has doubts about running MySQL. Or what if > they have tons of bandwidth, 20 daddy sun servers, and are running Oracle? > Becoming a node should be very simple -- in fact it should be even simplier > than CDDB's setup. > > How about shooting me the schema and I'll take a whack at it? I'll also look > into the data replication issues. XML might be the answer. . . >
Ideally, the server should be able to run on various backends. I don't know
much about database programmign, but couldn't we just write a bit more code
to use either MySql or postgres? Or ldap for that matter.