After reading this thread, I wonder if we couldn't create an abstract RDBMS interface in the core, then in the addons repository, create modules for MySQL, MSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Sybase, PGSQL, or whatever. The abstraction layer would simply use whichever addon module it was configured to use. This would eliminate the licensing issues Digium may have when granting a non-GPL license to a 3rd party, while allowing creating a very flexible product.
Additional functionality could be added with some simple hooks in the core. For example, if you want your configurations to come directly from a SQL database in real time, add hooks into the code to cause * to read from the abstraction layer instead of it's internal database. It would be simple enough to do, and as a build-time and/or run-time configuration option, I believe it can be done without causing issues to the stability of the core. Another example is CDR, which would do what it does now by writing a csv, but could have a hook added to it to also send accounting data to a SQL server or even a Radius accounting server or something else entirely. To do this right would probably force a major architectural change to *, which I'm sure that Mark would be reluctant to do, but if someone could build the framework, get some folks to test it (in small, medium, and large deployments), I'll bet Mark will accept it. Also, with the advent of the addons repository, has anyone asked Mark if he would be willing to grant commit privileges to more people? It doesn't make much sense to create a new repository for this when Digium already has the facilities available and a new repository for non-core items. BTW, I'm not a coder, I'm just an idea man. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks http://www.psknet.com 540.994.4254 ~ 866.477.5638 Pulaski Chamber 2002 Small Business Of The Year > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Evans > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 5:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] CDR Web Search Frontend > > > > Or do something really smart like the Perl guys and have a > > backend-mostly-independent DB infrastructure. Hell I think > that PHP > > finally smartened up and went this way, too. > > > > Hi Guys > > I am happy to do this and send the code back. Database independence > isn't to hard to achieve. It would be nice if a group of us could get > together and discuss how we can make this great app even better and > possibly look at getting a small team together to merge this and > phpconfig into a single application. Will possible access to > cvs for the > developers. > > Thoughts? > > Mark Evans > SiteTel > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
