On 16 Nov 2001, Jeff Trawick wrote: > > But you lose the run-time selection of the db flavor that having both > modules gives you... As I understand it, in order to lose function, > apr-util needs to allow db type to be specified to apr_dbm_open(), > mod_auth_dbm needs way to find what the type should be (config > directive? tell apr_dbm_open() to autodetect?), then mod_auth_db > becomes truly redundant. > > (expecting sanity checking of this :) ) >
Good Point - OtherBill had mentioned there might be a patch to build *all* possible dbs into apr, then let you specify at run time (connect time) which type you wish to connect to - this way you could solve this problem (though requires an api change/addition). sterling
