On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 21:43 -0500, Kellner, Peter wrote: > Speaking of Membership, is anyone working on that class? If so, is the > plan to make a provider for mysql since Microsoft does not have that?
Well, there are some basic stubs that I did (a long time ago). But AFAIK, nobody is working on implementing one of the providers. IMHO, SqlMembershipProvider (if it is implemented) should be written so that it queries a mssql server with the schema that msft's framework uses -- there would be some value to being able to share an authentication database with apps that are written on windows. Also, if somebody wants to quickly migrate an application from windows to linux, it may be easiest to first do the web part, then the db part. (in fact one app that I am working on for school would benefit greatly from being able to attach to the MSFT schema). If we want to have a provider that uses a free database (which is needed), it should probably be a mono specific assembly (that way people on Windows can use it too, if they don't want to pay > $1000 for sqlserver (and for some reason can't use don't want sqlexpress). We could still make this class the default in Mono's machine.config, so that things worked out of the box (however, for this to really work, we'd need something like sqlexpress's database attaching). In terms of mysql, pgsql might be a better choice as the mysql provider is now GPL and we are no longer updating it from upstream. -- Ben _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list