[mythtv] add support for SQLite?
James Chapman
jchapman at katalix.com
Mon Mar 5 14:33:35 UTC 2007
Isaac Richards wrote:
> James Chapman wrote:
>> Anyways, the reason for my original post was to find out if anyone was
>> already working on SQLite so as to avoid doing duplicate work. It seems
>> no. So I'll go away and develop a patch.
>
> We don't really want to have to support multiple database types. It's quite a
> bit of extra work. I _would_ like to switch to embedded mysql - that should
> get us most of the largest benefits of moving to sqlite without the added
> pain of reworking large amounts of code.
Rework large amounts of code? Wouldn't all of this be handled by the Qt
SQL abstraction? I was thinking none of the SQL code of MythTV would
need to be changed, unless perhaps an obscure SQL feature was being
used. Maybe I'm missing something?
> If you're interested on working on that, instead of sqlite, I can write up
> some quick docs for you on how I think things should work. Or, just try to
> find me on IRC (Chutt in #mythtv on freenode) and we can talk about it there.
> I think you were on earlier, but I wasn't around then.
That would be good. Catch me on IRC.
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