On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:57:51PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:48:02PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote: > > Mysql on a remote machine sounds less proper to me. :) But good point. > > This problem needs to be solved. > > How about a mysql virtual package for a debian package to depend on > whereby if a mysql-server at al is not installed a dialogue (questions!) > are posed to the administrator. That's a pretty damn cool idea. You'd probably want the ability for the admin to bomb out on it, too -- perhaps he's got his mysql server locked down so that remote users can't create accounts or databases (that's a clever admin). > With ODBC in mind, I don't think we should waste time abstracting for > other DBMSs for the moment. I don't think it's worth it at all. I'd say the majority of webapps / other database-liking things don't work with multiple DBMS' anyway. - Matt
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