I really can't see the big problem here. We had a bundled database in 6.3(SQLite) in 6.5 we also have a bundled database(MySQL).
If you are a non technical person, you don't se any difference. There is no extra installation, there is no exta configuration. If you are a technical person who didn't administate/manage the SQLite datbase with third party tools you won't se any difference. There is no extra configuration or management with the bundled MySQL compared to the earlier bundled SQLite database. The MySQL database bundled is by default configured with no network support, so the security risk shouldn't be a problem either. If you are a technical person who cares about the database and wan't to administrate/manage it with third party tools, you will see the difference. Earlier you had to use user unfriendly tools towards a text file which could easily be corrupted, now with MySQL there is a lot of third party tools available which you can use to manage/administrate your database. Slim Devices could of course have choosen to say that they support ANY database, but that would probably have been a huge hit on the support team which would result in that we would get less support for real problems. It would probably also have resulted in less time for the developers to implement real slimserver functions because they had to spend time to make sure to test the existing code toward all available database products. The only bad thing I personally can see with MySQL is if it make slimserver not to work on low memory/slow CPU devices such as NAS boxes. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist), 'Custom Browse' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28414 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
