> Its a different topic than this, but having such a pluggable interface > would be nice. The biggest pain would be having to emulate it if a real > database is not available (emulation would probably mean a flat file with > fields separated by something or another) > > I can think of all sorts of stuff to record. And if it was stored in an > SQL database, one could then do analysis. What are people really buying > from the stores? What spells are characters using? Where are people > killing monsters, etc. > > For crossfire, I was thinking something like dbm (or other native file > based method) could be used, but I don't know how portable such methods are > on non unix systems. But looking at that, other than fast fetching of the > keys, the data for that key is all stored in one field, so the server would > still need to parse that out. So doesn't gain as much as one would like. > I also suspect that for most servers, the size of this file wouldn't be > very large, so even parsing a flat file wouldn't be that costly.
SQLITE is already used by my logger and newspaper (alpha) plugins. Seems ok for me. As for statistics, I don't really care actually for now, better to develop content and such :) And maybe Zebulon (Ragnor's bot) could actually give statistics, if needed. Nicolas -- http://nicolas.weeger.org [Mon p'tit coin du web]
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