On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:42:06AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > I thought the reason for switching from the generated HTML to CGIs was so > > that the pages could be dynamically generated, and we wouldn't have this > > problem. > > you're correct, that is the reason. But the indices take too long to fully > dynamically generate. They would have to read all the bug .status files, > every time they were requested, and then do sorts all the time.
It's long past time that the BTS had a real database backend. Since the code is being actively worked on, I assume there are reasons why this isn't feasible yet. Do you know what they are? Is there any way I can help? -- - mdz
