Fwd: RE: sdk comparison on webpage

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

----------  Mail forwarded (Author is Paul Tiseo)...  ----------
Subject: RE: sdk comparison on webpage
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:34:25 -0500
From: "Paul Tiseo" <ptiseo@mediaone.net>


Christian,

	Please forward to the LGDC. Apprently, the Mediaone-ORBS thing won't get
fixed any time soon.

From: root@fenris.BR0keNLAnd.org [mailto:root@fenris.BR0keNLAnd.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: sdk comparison on webpage
> > Sure. Do you want to work on it (& maintain the data) ? ;)
> > Actually that's quite similar to what I planned to do anyway,
> > someday when I've got enough time. See
> > http://sunsite.auc.dk/penguinplay/database/ for some more info.
> >
>
> sure? (maintaining data should be passed onto maintainers,

	Ah, but the key question is, will it rest in the LGDC or in PenguinPlay?

> > Well, it's a bit of work to properly design the table
> layout (what has to
> > go in? how to represent features - There's tons of possible
> features &
> > feature sets are constantly changing etcetc) and to write
> the PHP code, and
> > it's quite much work to keep the data up-to-date.
> > On the other hand, a PHP-based approach would allow the
> individual SDK
> > developers to maintain the entries of their libs directly,
> i.e. without
> > going over our "sdk-list maintainer" - which saves us of
> most of that work.
> >
>
> I think I already see how the db would be layed out... which

	I did think of this early on (I'm sure it's archived!) but the idea was
poo-pooed because of the fear of creeping feature sets and the ability of a
few to track this reliably. I, myself, thought that SDK authors should be
able to list their SDK and specify the feature set via PHP on the site. I
had a (general) design where a table contained all the known features and
another the SDKs and a many-to-many (which is essentially what you have with
SDK and features in a db) could be established via a key table.

> used? mysql has been annoying me a lot lately, it does simple
> stuff very fast,
> but it looses a lot of speed from lacking features like
> subselects...

	Yes, I also wish MySQL had subselects...

> I'd imagine some kind of user authentification should go into
> the mix... just
> to keep everyone honest :)
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