Re: [Senior Devs] Amarok and SQL queries

2015-11-02 Thread Soren Harward
Does using Qt as a SQL abstraction layer make sense? Absolutely. But is it the best option? Maybe. It'll depend on the stability of the layer and performance through it. The current architecture made sense in 2007–8, but that was a long time ago. And the only way to find out if the decisions

Re: [Senior Devs] Amarok and SQL queries

2015-11-01 Thread Olivier Churlaud
Le 01/11/2015 18:15, Soren Harward a écrit : On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Olivier Churlaud wrote: I wonder: why are the mysql libraries directly used and not the Qt framework (QSqlQueries and so on)? IIRC, it's entirely historical. For a handful of reasons that were valid in 2008 but aren'

Re: [Senior Devs] Amarok and SQL queries

2015-11-01 Thread Soren Harward
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Olivier Churlaud wrote: > I wonder: why are the mysql libraries directly used and not the Qt framework > (QSqlQueries and so on)? IIRC, it's entirely historical. For a handful of reasons that were valid in 2008 but aren't any longer, the decision was made late (an

[Senior Devs] Amarok and SQL queries

2015-11-01 Thread Olivier Churlaud
Hi, In the porting, I found an issue related to the collection storing, so I read a little the way mysql was handled. I wonder: why are the mysql libraries directly used and not the Qt framework (QSqlQueries and so on)? Is it because of the history of the program? For performance issues? No