On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:37:05PM -0500, Keith Smiley wrote: >The announcement on scoop.k5 is over two years old, if you'll notice, and I >haven't heard anything about it since then. I think denshi sent me a couple >preliminary patches which I wanted some changes in, then I didn't hear anything >else. In any case, I don't think he's going to be updating it to CVS. Also, >Scoop isn't "mojo-less" now, k5 just turned it off. Other sites can still use >it if they'd like. Thank you for the explanation. My eyes saw 2003 where they should have seen 2001. Such is the strength of my long-standing desire. >Back on database abstraction, I picked it up a few months ago and got a good >deal of it done over a weekend, but didn't check it in at the time because I >didn't think it was far enough along. It was really at the point that database >statements just had to be re-written, though, so it still worked on mysql and >mostly worked on postgres. Once its done, it should be fairly simple to port >the code to other databases, and there will be a mechanism for boxes to use the >abstraction in their queries. After the 1.0 release, I'll bring what I had up >to the current version and checkin what I have to CURRENT. I might also write >something up about how it works to make sure people don't see any major >problems with it. Once I can use Postgres with scoop I will be very happy. I also like the current comment rating scheme where everyone can see zero ratings, etc. Are you saying that scoop has a bunch of separate knobs one can tweak to get the current Kuro5hin setup, but also to duplicate the original mojo setup, without altering anything at the code level? Jonathan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 307 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.kuro5hin.org/pipermail/scoop-dev/attachments/20040203/b4364fb1/attachment.bin