>Haven't there been problems with MySQL and 7.6 for months ? >If it was easy to support multiple databases it feels like those >problems should have been fixed by now. > Yes, MySQL hasn't worked right in 7.6 since the work started, but neither has SQLite for me either ;-)
In my case, it may be migration issues; it certainly wasn't smooth trying to upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6. Maybe installing as a new user works. Even *if* SQLite is much faster than MySQL because it is all in-process and in-memory, there has to be some tipping point where SQLite isn't the best choice, otherwise all databases in the world would be powered by it ;-) eg. maybe it works for small music libraries, but will it really work for users that have large libraries. I think I'm above average, but know there's people with much larger libraries than me. MySQL used to work fine in 7.5; SBS should have been modified to run SQLite without breaking MySQL, or at least making it easy to return to it if SQLite didn't work well. When the work was started, I thought it was more of an experiment to see if SQLite could be made to work. Why not hedge bets and write it so that any DB engine could be integrated at ease. After all, there are several different OS's supported with specialised code; is there really much difference in SQL engine that can't be handled in some specialisation? Most SQL is identical; just needs some specialisation for creating the DB, etc. >I agree with all your comments regarding MySQL but I would prefer that >Logitech started to spend some development time on features that >actually made some difference to the end user, things that's related to >the music listening/discovery experience, which is the main usage for >most people. However, I've started to realize that technical >improvements always seems to get higher priority than functional >improvements around here... I'd like to see more bugs get fixed, and making existing features rock-solid. I can't remember many new features that have come in over the last 2-3 years that I have seen as a benefit to me. In fact quite a few changes I regard as reductions in functionality. eg. plugins becoming apps and being less configurable (menus, etc, not seeing internet radio providers under Internet Radio), less control over favorites (no IR numeric shortcuts), not storing current playlist in DB (affected TrackStat). _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
