* at 06/07 10:57 +0100 Lee Goddard said:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Struan Donald
> Sent: 06 July 2001 10:45
>
> > > But I get the impression that the coders have an ethos along the Apache
> > > lines - an extensible, modular design whose central object, aside from
> > > speed and industrial power, is integration with extrnal modules.
> >
> > that's as maybe but the problem with that metaphor (as it were) is
> > that apache does come with modules to do pretty much everything you'd
> > want a webserver to do and whether you use them is up to you. in mysql
> > a lot of the functionality that you might want from a database is
> > simply missing.
>
> Is simply awaiting someone with an understanding of a required functionality
> to come along and write it, as people do in the Apache project.
>
> You seem rather knowledgeable on the functionality, so why *not* write it?
<chuckles/>
i have no idea where you got the idea that i was knowledgable on the
functionality. i've used it so have some idea of what i see as the
limitations but i don't think that makes me in any way qualified to try
and extend it.
> > the other flaw is that apache has an api for adding modules into the
> > core (or as near as) while in your example the extensions happen in
> > your applications space an not in mysql's which inevitably results in
> > it all running slower than if it was inside the database which
> > can/could do all sorts of clever optimisation things.
>
> I didn't know that: seems much less thought out than Aapche, but then
> they're a commerical organisation, so I guess don't get out as much
> as the Apache crew, and so don't get to learn as much.
i prob should clarify here in that this is AFAIK rather than gospel.
just that i've never seen anything about an api for the core so i
assume there isn't one in the sense that apache has one. the fact that
i've not noticed any third party modules out there seems to support
this[1].
> > that said if you just want to use it for a simple website or something
> > then it is the boy.
>
> The boy...? I'll not pursue that line of metaphor, I think.
cf lobey's the wee boy: http://netsavvy.co.uk/lobey/ which is glasgow
humour at it's finest.
struan
[1] which is where someone usually say 'actually...'
