[DGD] Database support (mysql)

[Michael Bergbauer]

On Mon Sep 23, 2002 at 08:0357AM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:35:48PM +0200, Vladimir I. Lazarenko wrote:
> > Good day.
> > 
> > Has anyone ever made something like *sql support for DGD?
> > mysql for instance.

I have some patch (at least I hope I can retrieve a patch) towards 1.1.70
that proved to be quite stable. But there would be a lot of work to do to
be able to use it with 1.2, as you have to make it atomic-aware. 
 
> I did a set of kfuns for 1.1 at one point that allowed gdbm access.
> For MySQL you might be better off porting the networking kfuns forward
> to the current release and then writing LPC to connect to MySQL via
> a socket.

Hmm, I don't think thats a good idea, as the MySQL-protocol itself is
quite complex. 

-- 
Michael Bergbauer <michael at noname.franken.de>
use your idle CPU cycles - See http://www.distributed.net for details.
Visit our mud Geas at geas.franken.de Port 3333
_________________________________________________________________
List config page:  http://list.imaginary.com/mailman/listinfo/dgd