Hello, I second Arno's comments, but add one note of caution. If I am not mistaken, DB2 is a commercial product, so there may be licensing restrictions (both with the GPL used by Bacula and with IBM) on using or referencing any DB2 client libraries that are needed in Bacula to interface to DB2. This is something that is important to understand from the beginning. If you are thinking of including your code in the Bacula project, you will need to read the Developer's Guide, which is online on the web site and then fill out and send in the FSFE FLA (fiduciary license agreement). Please see the Developer's guide for more details.
Best regards, Kern PS: A related project is to turn the current db drivers into shared objects so that we can support all databases with the same binary but with different shared objects, and if one is really clever, we could support multiple different SQL engines at the same time. On Wednesday 05 September 2007 16:27, João Henrique Freitas wrote: > Hello, > > I like to open a discussion about Bacula project and some questions. > > For now, I am a postgraduation in development software and need to do a > work to finish my course. > The central motivation is study the contribution process on open source and > free software. How the enthusiastic user can became a developer in some > project. > > To prove my ideas and way I choice Bacula project to research and write my > work. > > Basically, I want to implement a catalog backend to IBM DB2. In the same > time I want to write my work based on this experiences. > > The motivation for the choice of IBM DB2 is not very especial. I need > learning DB2 and currently work with it. > > So, before I spend more energy, what ours opinions about this? > > Thanks a lot. > > PS: Please, I am not requesting you to develop this backend. It's Just a > technical opinion ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
