Re: Intent to package: GnuDIP

[Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>]

Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 05:47:28PM -0500, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > It's GPL'ed by the way... though it depends on mysql.
> 
> /me wonders how hard would be to modify it to use a DFSG-compliant
> database...

Almost no problem at all... Instead of doing (for example, in the gdips.pl
script):

  my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:gnudip2", $gnudip2user, $gnudip2pass);

you do:

  my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Pg:gnudip2", $gnudip2user, $gnudip2pass);

to use a PostgreSQL database engine (requires the 'libdbd-pg-perl'
etc package though).

And ofcourse, the post*/pre* scripts have to deal with all the
different engines... I prefere mySQL, eventhough it's in non-free.
It's free for me...



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