On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 18:00 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > > * New "database". I think using a general-purpose database like > > MySQL probably made it easier to get started, but I think its the > > wrong thing going forward long-term, (in terms of both storage > > requirements and performance). I don't know if any existing > > project has a good start on something appropriate yet. > > > > * Keep things light enough for a small, embedded device. The neo1973 > > with integrated GPS looks _really_ interesting here, (especially > > if free-software drivers for the GPS appear). > > You can tackle both things by having an sqlite3 backend. Ian mentioned that > roadster > relies on 'full text index' which only mysql seem to have, but didn't raise > any other > concerns, so supporting sqlite shouldn't be too hard.
It might be a worthwhile to use the libgda abstraction so that roadster could support different database backends as needed. http://www.gnome-db.org/ _______________________________________________ roadster mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/roadster
