On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 07:47:00PM +0300, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> 06.04.2016 19:00, Jim Starkey wrote:
>
> > I suggest that FB4 get completely out of the business of passing
> > database file names over the API and go strictly with something like a
> > URL that identifies the location and name of a database, letting the
> > server configuration map the name into a file name, et al.
>
> I'm wondering how many users we'll lose because of this change. People
> never like more requirements to do the same job. This is especially
> important for embedded users, I believe 95% of them never used aliases
> and would hate to setup some configuration just to access the database.
> It will also complicate installation/distribution of embedded solutions.
I agree that for embedded users, identifying a database by file path
makes very good sense. On the other hand, it IMHO makes much less sense
to expose filesystem structure to remote clients (security guys might
use stronger words).
Michal Kubecek
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