[Python-Dev] Re: [PyCON-Organizers] PyCon: The Spam Continues ;-)

2005-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
David Ascher wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Dear python-dev: The current (as of even date) summary of my recent contributions to Python -dev appears to be spam about PyCon. Not being one to break habits, even not those of a lifetime sometimes, I spam you yet again to show you what a beautiful summar

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [PyCON-Organizers] PyCon: The Spam Continues ; -)

2005-01-25 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:29, David Ascher wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Modulo some SQLServer features we're using. Well free-text indexing would be my first guess. Anything else of interest? MySQL's free text indexing really sucks compared with SQL Server's, which to my mind is a good justification f

[Python-Dev] Re: [PyCON-Organizers] PyCon: The Spam Continues ;-)

2005-01-25 Thread David Ascher
Steve Holden wrote: Modulo some SQLServer features we're using. Well free-text indexing would be my first guess. Anything else of interest? MySQL's free text indexing really sucks compared with SQL Server's, which to my mind is a good justification for the Microsoft product. Freetext search is o

[Python-Dev] Re: [PyCON-Organizers] PyCon: The Spam Continues ;-)

2005-01-24 Thread David Ascher
Steve Holden wrote: Dear python-dev: The current (as of even date) summary of my recent contributions to Python -dev appears to be spam about PyCon. Not being one to break habits, even not those of a lifetime sometimes, I spam you yet again to show you what a beautiful summary ActiveState have

[Python-Dev] Re: [PyCON-Organizers] PyCon: The Spam Continues ;-)

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Holden
Steve Holden wrote: [some things followed by] If I remember Trent Lott (?) described at an IPC the SQL Server database that drives this system, and it was a great example of open source technology driving a proprietary (but I expect (?) relatively portable) repository. Please forgive me for thi