Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hello, I'm working on packaging conquest[1] for fedora which can be built against dbase,mysql, postgresql *and* mysql. Which one should I build it against? Should I build it against all of them and make different subpackages?? I've uploaded the build scripts here if someone wants a peek

Re: Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread Volker Fröhlich
Hello Ankur! Try to build against both. You can take a look at the Zabbix package for inspiration, for instance. Volker Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2011, 16:02:05 schrieb Ankur Sinha: Hello, I'm working on packaging conquest[1] for fedora which can be built against dbase,mysql, postgresql

Re: Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:08 +0200, Volker Fröhlich wrote: Hello Ankur! Try to build against both. You can take a look at the Zabbix package for inspiration, for instance. Volker Hi Volker, I'll go try that. I noticed I had mentioned mysql twice. I meant dbase, postgresql, mysql and

Re: Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:08 +0200, Volker Fröhlich wrote: Hello Ankur! Try to build against both. You can take a look at the Zabbix package for inspiration, for instance. Volker Hi Volker, I'll go try that. I

Re: Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread Volker Fröhlich
No idea about dbase, but you should support Sqlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL if it makes sense. If the developers said, foo doesn't work well with Sqlite, you should probably not build though. Volker Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2011, 16:10:54 schrieb Ankur Sinha: On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:08 +0200,

Re: Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/10/2011 07:32 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hello, I'm working on packaging conquest[1] for fedora which can be built against dbase,mysql, postgresql *and* mysql. Which one should I build it against? Should I build it against all of them and make different subpackages?? Did you talk to

Re: Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread Jon Ciesla
On 08/10/2011 07:32 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hello, I'm working on packaging conquest[1] for fedora which can be built against dbase,mysql, postgresql *and* mysql. Which one should I build it against? Should I build it against all of them and make different subpackages?? Did you talk to

Re: Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread John Reiser
I'm working on packaging conquest[1] for fedora which can be built against dbase,mysql, postgresql *and* mysql. Which one should I build it against? Should I build it against all of them and make different subpackages?? Did you talk to upstream and figure out if all these options are equally

Re: Which db should I build this package against?

2011-08-10 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 08:43 -0700, John Reiser wrote: Perhaps upstream could deliver N shared libraries, then at run time use dlopen() to load the one which corresponds to the database package that is being used. Thank you for all the suggestions. I'll try the sub package method first and