Hi, On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:42:07 +0000, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-11 14:34]: >> Whatever happened to the idea of using a common database access library >> like iODBC? It's reasonably small, Not A Burden if you happen to not >> require any database lookup features, and it doesn't bloat the archives >> with four versions of exim (-none, -mysql, -pgsql, and -kitchensink). > > Thats a really nice idea. Are you going to send in patches for the > various programs to support that? > For those I actually use with databases? Yes.
> If a program supports it already I would expect the > maintainer of the package to do the reasonable thing and enable that > sort of binding. There are some packages built as foo, foo-mysql, foo-pgsql, foo-kitchensink, _and_ foo-odbc. IMHO the middle three are superflouos. -- Matthias
