Looking for information on implemented API's in wine

David Fraser davidf at sjsoft.com
Sat Feb 15 09:24:19 CST 2003


Dave Miller wrote:

>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.  :)
>
>  
>
Another advantage of it being in a flat file is that different people 
can work on different
versions of it and use diff, patch, cvs, etc to maintain them. This 
wouldn't be possible just
through having a simple web interface.
David




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