Re: Google SoC--Idea Request

On 4/15/06, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> wrote:
> Doing the latter is a precondition for implementing the former in a
> reasonable way, I believe.

> BTW, these two web log entries summarizing Mono and Mozilla's
> experiences with SoC might make interesting reading:

Thanks for the reading material. I don't think our project is exactly
the same, but it's good information to keep in mind.

> Given the above, I would be wary of such projects bit-rotting. If the
> upstream project hasn't bothered to add PostgreSQL support, there might
> be a good reason why: writing truly database-agnostic applications is
> not always easy (or even desirable).

This isn't always the case. In a lot of cases, the developers just
wanted to take the easy route and used MySQL... they have a lot of
people asking for PostgreSQL support but they don't have the expertise
to add it themselves.

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