On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:31:00PM -0700, Noah Hart scratched on the wall: > Rather my point is that it would be of benefit if SQLite would have > some built in mechanism for a rule-based collation.
SQLite *does* have a mechanism for "rule-based" or any-other based collations: User defined collations. They work the exact same way built-in collations work. The API is simple and straight forward. If you want to show the SQLite community this is a Good Idea, there is one simple, easy, fast solution: stop writing posts and start writing code. I also don't buy the black and white argument that this needs to go into the core or it isn't worth doing. FTS wasn't in the core distribution for ages. Neither was the ICU stuff. They still aren't on by default... Yet plenty of people were able to do great work with it and -- most importantly -- prove their stability, worth, and limitations so that they were accepted by the community and integrated into the core distribution. The truth is dynamic modules work on just about every major platform and are trivial to write. Nearly anything that will allow you to execute a raw SQL command will let you attach a module. If you don't like modules, a custom version of SQLite or a SQLite DLL/so/dylib is trivial to compile. Even if your gee-wiz 3D GUI editor might not work out of the box, that's not the point. No matter how strongly anyone feels about this, there is a flat zero chance of it going into the core distribution until someone writes some code. Get the code working, be able to show that it works and has worth, then come talk. Even if you believe it must be in the core, you still need working code. So let's see some. We can sit here and argue and bicker until the cows come home, or someone can sit down, write some code and show/prove that the extension is (or isn't!) useful and productive. But until someone produces working code, all we have is a lot of hot air on **both** sides of the table. To quote the Internet Engineering Task Force: "We reject: Kings, Presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code." Show us the code. -j -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor." "I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string." --from Anathem by Neal Stephenson _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
