Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

David and all,

On Thu, 02 May 2013 09:12:40 +0200
David Verdin <address@concealed> wrote:

> Hi Soji,
> Le 01/05/13 04:19, IKEDA Soji a e'crit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had been fixing some bugs on SourcesUp tracker.
> Yes, We saw it; I take the occasion to let you know how impressed we are
> before the number of bugs you fixed recently.:-)
> >
> > Some bugs on 6.1.x or earlier were fixed in 6.2 branch and tracker
> > items are kept open.  These would be closed when they tested with
> > sympa-6.2b.1 or so.
> OK.
> >
> > Several bugs remaining open seem slightly hard to fix for me...
> Sopme of them are open since a long time because fixing them requires
> deep changes in Sympa way of functionning.

In next week, after spring vacation, I'll be sweeping tracker to
close older bug items which had been really fixed.


> > RDBMS Dependency
> >
> > As far as I see, minimum requirements of RDBMS for recent
> > sympa-6.2-branch are as below:
> >
> > * MariaDB
> >   All releases.
> >   Aria and XtraDB storage engines will work.
> Nice. I never heard of MriaDB before. It looks like a replacement for
> MySQL, doesn't it?

Sure.  MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, ...or probably MySQL is a fork
of MariaDB ;-).  It had emerged as clone of MySQL 5 and now does
more.


> > * MySQL
> >   4.1.1 or later (for character set support).
> >   MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines will work.
> We already mentionned that the minimum version of MySQL is 4.1.
> Increasing it to 4.1.1 will not change much, so all is good.
> >
> > * PostgreSQL
> >   7.4 or later (provides current_schema() function).
> >
> > * SQLite
> >   3.0 or later (for "immediate" lock feature).
> Great!
> >
> > * Oracle, Sybase etc.
> >   Unknown.
> You said that Sybase was hopeless. Maybe we should consider dropping it.
> I'm supposed to run a survey on Sympa usage at the end of Spring. We'll
> see if there are any relevant usage of this SGBD.
> Same for Oracle, but I think it os still widely used.
> For 6.3 refactoring, we should consider usage of abstraction layers
> provided by CPAN, if they don't involve functionnality regression.

Although I'm not sure, DBD::Sybase seems not to be able to handle
BLOB.

Anyway, if any develpers don't have testbed for Sybase, it would like
to be dropped.

Survey seems good idea.  A few months ago a user asked me, "Why
Sympa doesn't support InnoDB?".  I couldn't answer, because I
didn't KNOW whether someone is running Sympa with InnoDB
successfully or not.


Regards,

--- Soji

> Thanks for all this great work on Sympa!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --- Soji
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