On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 07:58 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
> sort of data processing work. Before I didn't understand why. Now I'm > starting to see his point -- often, it's a lot of overhead and fragility > for minimal flexibility in return. Okay, I was just thinking, not trying to steer the Fink project awry or anything. > In a case like this, I wouldn't bother > with it unless there was a clear & compelling argument in it's favor I'm no expert on the subject, but FWIU a RDBMS like MySQL is appropriate for data that exists within complex relationships rather than flat files. Given that .info files resemble the latter, this seems like one of those "rare" moments when XML is actually more appropriate. (Of course, speed is another point in favor of RDBMSs.) > But yeah, anything further here should go on the devel list. You're right of course, but I didn't bother posting this to fink-dev because at this point, this thread is simply a discussion, and no longer a suggestion regarding the web site. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
