Portmill status

[Jim Meyer]

On Jun 29, 2009, at 8:34 AM, William Siegrist <wsiegrist at apple.com>  
wrote:

> On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:13 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>
>> On 2009-6-29 18:56, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:
>>> Another thing that came up was the suggestion that it should be  
>>> ported
>>> to mysql instead of couchdb. [...] Do you think all macports  
>>> things should
>>> use mysql?
>>
>> Not at all. Use the best tool for the job.
>>
>
> But "best tool" here needs to take into consideration the other  
> MacPorts web apps. Right now, MPWA and the website use MySQL. It  
> would help share data in the long run if all systems pulled from the  
> same database. I don't think its worth the effort to integrate the  
> Postgres DB that backs Trac, but we can at least try to make MPWA,  
> Portmill, and the website share some common data. That of course  
> means the other apps could be ported to CouchDB if thats a better  
> tool overall.

Alternately, we could just be sure each app has a good set of RESTful  
APIs by which they communicate with each other (and perhaps other apps  
as well). This also has the benefit of avoiding backend DB  
entanglements when one app needs to evolve differently than the others.

--j
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