We're considering backporting Mulgara support from Fedora 3.0 to our next 2.2.x release, but we'd like some feedback from the community on this subject. Unfortunately, providing both Kowari and Mulgara support is not a feasible option, because of library dependency issues, so it is a one-or-the-other decision.
As Fedora 2.2.x is in maintenance mode, we are striving to limit updates to 2.2.x to bug fixes. Replacing Kowari with Mulgara is arguably a bug fix since Kowari is no longer maintained (and hasn't been for years) and has a number of bugs only addressed in Mulgara, but it's a significant enough change that we would like to hear from our 2.2.x users who are using a Kowari-backed Resource Index. The upgrade process for Kowari users should be a straightforward run of the Resource Index Rebuilder utility. Notably, replacing Kowari with Mulgara will eliminate RDQL query support. However, I don't have a sense of how important RDQL support is for our 2.2.x users. There is also a slight change in handling dates prior to 1 AD (the patched version of Kowari included with Fedora followed ISO 8601:2000 Second Edition, but the latest Mulgara release follows XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition, which in turn follows the earlier ISO 8601)*. Otherwise, moving from Kowari to Mulgara is a big win: more bug fixes, better stability, performance and scalability, etc. not to mention making maintenance (for the Fedora developers) much easier. * See http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime for more details ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
