On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 scoop-dev-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:42:38 -0800 > From: Jonathan Walther <krooger at debian.org> > To: scoop-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Scoop-dev] current status of PostgreSQL port of scoop? > > > --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Disposition: inline > > I saw the wondrous announcement on scoop.kuro5hin.org but haven't seen > any updates since then. I posted a comment to the article by Denshi a > couple weeks ago, and got no reply. I haven't been able to access the > server to download the source. Strangely enough I didn't get a warning email about your comment. Do you have a link? > Has anyone got their hands on the source? I like Kuro5hin a lot more > now without the mojo; a lot of the popularity contest element seems to > have gone, and with it the blow-hards who spent their time striving for > vain things. Those who are left are more egoless, more committed to the > discussions for their own sake. I'll send you the patches this evening. > Will there be a Postgres version of scoop soon that is updated to the > new mojo-less version? mojo-less? I haven't touched scoop in a couple years, could you bring me up to speed? Hulver said: > > Hopefully it won't just be Postgres specific, but suitable for other > DB's as well, like Interbase. I'll check. I like the system OpenACS picked up off of Common Lisp's generic functions: there are queries of decreasing specifity to the target data (or DB) with a totally generic query as the safety. I think Keith, below, has written something to that effect. > Message: 10 > Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 21:37:05 -0500 > From: Keith Smiley <panner at perlmonkey.net> > To: scoop-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Scoop-dev] current status of PostgreSQL port of scoop? > > 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 anyt= > hing > 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 u= > se > it if they'd like. IIRC, you were around but the other maintainers were on vacation or studying or something otherwise time consuming. It was a weekend hack and I didn't have the time for it otherwise. > 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 datab= ase statements just had to be re-written, though, so > it still worked on mysql a= nd 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 wri= te something up about how it works to make > sure people don't see any major problems with it. > Sounds good.