Looking for information on implemented API's in wine

[Dave Miller]

I've never actually had any intention of everyone needing to install MySQL
in order to make use of the database.  I had planned on it being a single
database, accessible via the web.  Querying would be done via forms.  It
seemed the easiest way to present all the data in a single place.  I also
thought it might be possible to enter application data, so that it can be
queried for APIs the app requires, etc.  Right now I will certainly work
toward a flat file.  I had intended to start with that anyway, and it is
easily imported into SQL if choose to move in that direction.  But as I've
said, I'm certainly not an experienced programmer and so I have no real idea
of what is possible with perl plus the power of awk.  But I am sure once we
can gather the data someone will be happy to help find ways to query it.  :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com>
To: "Gerhard W. Gruber" <sparhawk at gmx.at>
Cc: <wine-devel at winehq.com>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for information on implemented API's in wine


> Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:20:06 -0500, "Dave Miller" <compsol at ptd.net>
wrote:
> >
> >>Hmm.  I did intend to use a database, specifically MySQL was my
thinking.
> >>What I hoped was there would be a web interface to query the database
and so
> >>everyone would not have to have MySQL to use it.  Of course it needs to
be
> >
> > Personally I don't have any objections to use a real database. You could
> > provide a small script that unloads the data to a flat ASCII file
anyway, so
> > this wouldn't be a problem for anybody not using MySQL. I have it
installed
> > for other things, so it wouldn't matter to me and if you intend to use a
> > webinterface you can easily download it.
>
> I can't but think that MySQL is way overkill.
> Let's define the queries we want to do, and see if awk isn't
> up to them :-)  It probably is, and it's far easier to
> set up than MySQL.  Those who can't think in anything but SQL
> really should try learning the traditional unix programmer's
> workbench tools for relational database processing.
> - Dan
>
>
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