Jon writes:

> on 10/29/99 11:10 AM, Preston L. Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd like to ship a product that can use a database if the customer has one,
> > but does not require that one be installed.
>
> Kinda kills the point of your application eh? How can you write an
> application that depends on a database and then not expect people to use
> one.

     Probably because he wrote an application that depends on a
database but wants to provide the user with the option of using their
current database.

> > Frameworks like Turbine/Dash seem to require a database (and SQL?) but I
> > can't count on one existing on the customer's system.
>
> Wrong. Turbine does NOT require a database. Take a look at
> org.apache.turbine.db.DBNone.
>
> > Is there such beast?
>
> Turbine. Sigh, just read the code more closely before you make comments like
> that.

     Maybe if the code was *documented*, people would read the docs.
Gee, that sounds familiar, where have I heard that before... :-).

Steven J. Owens
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