Re: [seul-edu] AUC Status

[Kevin Brown <dennis.brown@sympatico.ca>]

"David C. Moore" wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> > I would try it out on my home network but there is only one problem: I have
> > postgreSQL instead of MySQL. It took me a whole day of my small one week march
> > break to set it up so I  don't really want to replace it with MySQL.
>
> Ah!  Funny you should say so.  If you felt daring, you could patch AUC to
> work with both postgreSQL AND MySQL.  It shouldn't be terribly difficult,
> as SQL command syntax is the same.  It's just the C api that needs to
> support both.  I dunno if you want to make that kind of time investment
> though.  It's not a huge project, but it's not trivial either.  If you are
> interested, let me know and I can get you started.

I am not that great in C. I can do a few printfs textcolors but thats it. All I know
is the basics. I think it would be easier just to get a copy of MySQL (-:.

>
>
> This offer goes for anyone else as well, who would be interested in
> mucking around in C, and wants their name on an open source project.
>
> At the high school level, I remember doing things like this and calling
> them "independent projects" for various CS classes, and then getting an A
> for my efforts.  *grin*  Of course, that all depends on how easy it is to
> convince your teacher that it's worthwhile.

>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
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>   David Moore       California Institute of Technology
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