On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:39:06AM -0700, Aaron Stone wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 07:42 -0600, Dave Logan wrote: > > I think the "hangup" > > for us came with version changes, and if there were a unified dbmail API > > to query, rather than having to keep all the code in the webmail app, that > > would be a big step forward. You know, an API like IMAP or POP or such. :) > > Anyway, I'm a big quitter, so I never even attempted to port the codebase > > to the dbmail 2.x trunk. > > dave > > The 2.1 schema was a bit volatile for a while, but is now stable. So in > that respect, basically there was no way to keep up until recently. > > One possible path to making this work is a PHP extension compiled > against our libdbmail.so library. Most people would rather see a > pure-PHP solution, however, so you're back at porting weDBMail to the > current schema...
What about using stored procs as an API into the database? I know that raises some cross-database issues, but those aren't insurmountable (and probably aren't much worse than dealing with the cross-database stuff in C). -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"
