Am 12.08.2014 um 16:10 schrieb J. Roeleveld:
> On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 03:38:15 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 12/08/2014 15:28, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>> On 12 August 2014 14:06:07 CEST, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>>> On 12/08/2014 11:10, Mick wrote:
>>>>> I recall the devs explicitly stating early enough in the KDE4
>>>> development that
>>>>
>>>>> sqlite is not man enough for the job and advising everyone to move
>>>> over to
>>>>
>>>>> mysql.
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone was looking at postgresql as an alternative to mysql, but I'm
>>>> not sure
>>>>
>>>>> that this would bring any benefit.
>>>> pg is a fine database, but for this use will always be a 2nd class
>>>> citizen. Most users will already have mysql installed, or will be
>>>> willing to install it.
>>>>
>>>> The number of folks with pg and without mysql will probably be small
>>> Not necessarily.
>>> People who care about databases actually supporting SQL properly and
>>> performing properly will prefer PostgreSQL.
>>>
>>> I don't like to be forced to run a MySQL instance as well. It's often the
>>> laziness of developers that causes the difficulty of supporting a
>>> different database when they started with MySQL. If you start with a
>>> different one, like PostgrSQL, supporting different database engines is
>>> very simple.
>> I don't think you read what I said.
> Sorry, didn't read the below in what you put.
>
>> I didn't say postgresql shouldn't be supported, I said it would always
>> end up being a second class citizen as the number of people who'd be
>> happy with mysql will vastly outnumber the number of people who highly
>> desire postgresql. So, logically, a postgresql driver in this case will
>> probably just bitrot away. Whihc nicely explains the likely reason why
>> that driver is not there.
> It wouldn't bitrot away as there would be people willing to keep it working,
> provided it wouldn't require a MySQL -> SQL translator to be kept up-to-date.
>
>> People like yourself who care about databases are very much in the
>> minority of users, even on Linux. Most users across the boards just
>> don't give a shit. Them's the breaks.
> Users never care about what they install. I just wish the majority of
> developers would actually be willing to follow some simple guidelines to make
> it actually possible to others to write and maintain the drivers to connect
> to
> different databases.
>
> Several attempts have been made by people to add support for different
> databases to various projects. I've tried to do it myself on occasion, but
> even when patches are accepted by upstream, they get broken by upstream at a
> future release again because of the bad design that is often employed by lazy
> developers.
>
> --
> Joost
>
>
wasn't qtsql once supposed to that?
