On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Roger Binns <rog...@rogerbinns.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > P Kishor wrote: >> but we need >> multiple independent implementations to proceed along a >> standardisation path. > > They are right.
Of course they are right. My point was a bit different -- seems like only SQLite offers the right mix of functional punch, agile performance and lightweight footprint to be a viable technology for a web database. The world is full of databases, each claiming to one-up the next one. This little fella is the one that could. > You couldn't even just reference SQLite as it does change > with every release so it isn't 100% compatible with itself. That said, sqlite has a pretty good track record of being backward compatible, so much so that... > Usually the > changes are additions so it is no big deal. But some were "mistakes" in > earlier versions that were kept to avoid compatibility changes later on. > Right you said. Anyway, it was an amusing observation on W3C's impasse. > Even if the standard referenced SQLite, it would have to reference a > particular version and freeze things at that behaviour. The ongoing SQLite > development would then have to have a compile time or runtime way of > restricting behaviour to exact compatibility with that reference version. > > Roger > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkuPQiYACgkQmOOfHg372QTJ6ACguj3ke8l26/xrV6KoA7mImr7f > CCoAoNWrVnB0cgxL3sJEnnDpvzDb20tE > =oqRK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
