[isf-wifidog] MySQL support

[Francois Proulx]

Michael is right, it's not that I'm not willing to give time to make it work under MySQL it's just that we really need to have a meeting with all the developpers to settle on some roadmap. We are thrilled to see that so many people are interested in our project, but you have to realize that we're not at version 1.0 yet. We have a 5600+ user base, 45+ hotspots to support daily. We have to stabilize it before we spend to much time on rewrite the schema...

--- Michael Lenczner <mlenczner at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Michael Lenczner <mlenczner at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 14:24:20 -0400
To: WiFiDog Captive Portal <WiFiDog at listes.ilesansfil.org>,
	Daniel <y2k_daniel at gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [isf-wifidog] MySQL support

Daniel,

There are developpers that are part of the wifidog team that want to
make things a lot easier.  The issue regarding MySQL is not resolved
at all.  We'll be having a *long* overdue developpers meeting within
2-3 weeks and this will be one of the main points of discussion.

Different people worked on different parts of the project (Benoit and
Francois on the auth server, Mina, Pascal, Alex on the gateway, Phil
on both?) and have different ideas about it.  We'll be getting
everyone together soon to figure out some solutions.  And example is
Francois's statement that we are building primarily for our own
community first and only secondarily to have a usuable platform for
other groups.  Not everyone feels that way.  I'm certainly interested
in having a common platform that different groups can use and develop
applications for.  And I know some of the other developpers really
want to make it easier to use the gateway.

So keep tuned.

cheers,
mike


On 5/31/05, Daniel <y2k_daniel at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Hayden Myers wrote:
> > I decided it was more beneficial for me to learn
> > postgres and just deal with the incompatibility issues.
> 
> Ok you want to learn postgresql. I want to run wifidog-auth on my existing environment.
> That's the difference ;-) The website says there is mysql support so i asked how i can use it.
> 
> > I think postgres
> > may be a better database server than mysql anyways.  I know the version we
> > have on the server doesn't support stored procedures amongst many other
> > things I'm sure.
> 
> Please don't missunderstand me but that's a discussion i don't want to start.
> L*nux is worse/better than M$
> Intel is worse/better than AMD
> ATI is worse/better than Nvidia
> or...
> Postgresql is worse/better than MySQL
> 
> It depends on what you want to do with it :)
> -------------
> 
> I see it's difficult in the existing stage of development to implement a working MySQL layer.
> Maybe it's impossible in the future cause the complexity grows with each build.
> 
> I like the simplicity of wifidog but the missing database abstraction layer makes it difficult.
> 
> Thanks for all so far.
> I'll watch this project. If our community has enough money to rent a new server i'll think about running postgresql on it.
> 
> greetings
> Daniel
> 
> 
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