----- Original Message ----- > Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> said: > > One of the core focuses of Fedora Server is to simplify things. It's > > meant to help less-experienced users of Linux get up and running with > > common activities more quickly. Providing the "PostgreSQL" role and the > > "MariaDB" role means that we've forced the user to do additional > > research to figure out what they want. However, if we name one "Database > > Server", we are implicitly telling the user: "use this one, unless you > > have a specific need". > > Well, but a user will still have to do that research. A database isn't > like a browser or word processor; it doesn't exist in a vacuum and one > database engine can't just replace another at will. Some programs > support a wide variety of database engines, and some don't. For > example, for good or bad, many PHP-based things assume MySQL; some can > be configured otherwise, but most default to MySQL (and that may be all > the developers actually test).
Maybe this could be a very nice LAMP role. Or in our case FAMP :). > Database engines are probably one of the least interchangeable pieces, > so choosing _any_ (I'd say the same thing if this was a proposal to use > MariaDB) as "THE database engine" is poor IM(very)HO. It isn't about > promoting one engine over another, it is just that none are really the > one engine to rule them all. Given that, I don't see a reason to > declare any engine as the one true Database Server. I think any role > for a database should have the engine name in the Role. I understand what you mean but also - if someone is going to deploy application that depends on specific DB, it would probably mean own installation based on app requirements. Jaroslav -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
