[steering] Moving Forward

[Dean Mah]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:06:04PM -0800, .jeff wrote:

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> > > I think, we should try to make the changes so that
> > > future porting will be database independent, i.e.,
> > > don't use INDENTITY, AUTO-INCREMENT, SEQUENCES, etc.
> > > if possible.
> >
> > Totally agree - it also lets us start work before the
> > final platform decision.
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> well, database abstraction to the level suggested isn't easy.  right
> now we simply don't have a large enough window to do it right.  so,
> rather than futzing around with something that will be a moot point
> once we settle on db platform for weo, i'd rather put a shorter
> amount of time into porting the existing to work with a set db
> platform in the interim.

I wouldn't think that the effort expended would be moot.  I would
suspect that it would beneficial for the open source version of the
CMS on sourceforge.  I would still keep it in the back of the mind.


> on top of the time estimate above to port the code to work with
> another db platform, we're also going to have loads of fun porting
> the data from oracle to the new database.

What do you forsee as the problem there?

Dean