[daisy] regarding the DB2 issues -- @Aaron

[Steven Noels]

On 22 Jan 2007, at 11:28, Aaron.Digulla at Globus.ch wrote:

> You'll see that only a part of them is DB2 specific (namely, the SQL
> generation scripts).

I won't comment on the specifics of your patches and whether they are  
partially DB2 agnostic or not. I've responded in general terms, and  
would prefer to continue the conversation in general terms if you  
don't mind.

I'm very much open to any kind of debate about how we could resolve  
this situation, and whether we are erroneously doing MySQL-specific  
stuff. We don't have the resources however to continuously develop  
and test Daisy against other databases than MySQL at the moment.  
Committing your patch won't change that.

Addressing these issues is more of a manpower issue rather than a  
coding issue. Making sure that in the less than immediate future  
someone, actually anyone else but you will care about DB2 and Daisy.  
Otherwise, your contribution will sit there and start rotting the day  
after it has been committed to trunk. And fighting code-rot is even  
more of a concern to us because that really eats resources.

We don't have another 1.x release planned, but anyone is free to take  
your patch, apply it against the 1.5.1 tag and be merry running Daisy  
against DB2. Contrastingly, we feel people want to see 2.0 sooner  
rather than later. I know I want it marketing-wise. The current patch  
set can't readily be committed to trunk and fully integrating big  
database support will postpone the 2.0 release too much IMHO. But I  
beg anyone to differ.

As I understand your concerns, if people really need comprehensive  
big database support, we should try to address the issues  
comprehensively. Hurrying us through this process won't help. Helping  
us with small, bite-wise contributions definitely will.

Thanks for your patience,

</Steven>
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