Re: modular database backends

[Peter Novodvorsky <nidd at altlinux dot ru>]

Milan Zamazal wrote:

>     PN> May be you could make a CVS branch for 4.99?
> 
> Not yet.  That would require a lot of duplicate commits in the bug
> fixing and cleanup phase.
> 
>     PN> Heh, that's bad because I wanted to begin making implementation
>     PN> very actively. Do you have thoughts on the subject?  I'm writing
>     PN> ``specification'' of some kind. Maybe it will give the subject
>     PN> for discussion.
> 
> Well, the first ideas are:
> 
> - A function for deleting a PR should be added.  This is only seldom
>   used, but it's sometimes useful and can also be used e.g. by
>   maintenance tools.

Yeah, this is reasonable.

> 
> 
> - Maybe it's not *necessary* to force backends to implement full query
>   handling.  We probably can agree on that writing new backends should
>   be as simple as possible.  I can imagine that your `query_pr' function
>   could be only optional and there could be available simpler versions
>   of query functions that can get a list of all problem IDs, a
>   particular PR and maybe also optionally some index (similar to the
>   current one).

We can implement simplier functions in library that will open this 
module. And
these functions will use query_pr as more low level function. Any 
objections?

Nidd.