From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Struan Donald
Sent: 06 July 2001 11:40
>
> * 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.
I think it's a large part of the requirement; as you speak with cofindence
on these matters, I gather you're a decent programmer - little else is
needed.
> > > 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].
Or that you've just not noticed them.... either of us could go to the
site and look, and that neither of us has done or is going to do so
kindov belies the importance of the matter. <BURP/>
> > > 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.
Phew. I should have known you're in Glasgow after that bloody
postcode thing.
> [1] which is where someone usually say 'actually...'
Don't call me Ashley.
lee
