On Friday 11 April 2003 16:34, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > * Programs which access SQL databases should do so through > libgda2/unixodbc/???. > > ... assuming that we can reach some sort of consensus on which library > should be used..? Why is a consesus needed? I agree with you that having each package as foo, foo-mysql, foo-pgsql, foo-whatever is ugly. But there's many generic db libraries in many languages, and I don't see a need to require one to be the standard. Another way (probably better in some cases) is to recommend people to use runtime loadable modules, then the foo-pgsql module would not be another version of foo, but the pgsql driver module for foo. (Like php, apache, ... are doing it). But whatever: I'd be very careful pushing this idea: who will write the code? Many (most?) pkg maintainers are not upstream developers. cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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