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Following Marks blog? (New Garden stuff)

KrakKrak New
edited June 2008 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
I noticed something recently about the new backend he is coding (http://markosullivan.ca/blog/?p=83). He mentions Northwind, MS SQL. Don't have too much knowledge on these particulars but a quick google showed me that these are alternatives to MySQL (from Microsoft of course). Which were Windows only, I did not see any Linux versions etc. Can someone please tell me otherwise (shed some more light?), I hope he is not alienating 90% of the intarweb servers to run future Vanillas.

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  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    I would guess that since he's been doing a load of work on database abstraction he hopes that the framework will run on both ms and mysql?
  • sirlancelotsirlancelot New
    edited June 2008
    My guess is the same as Minisweeper's. He said earlier that he is using PDO, which is a database abstraction layer. Such a layer would allow an application built on it to use virtually any database backend that is supported by the layer.

    <shameless plug>I however prefer xPDO, which is an extension to the aforementioned layer.</shameless plug>
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    Mini/sirlancelot are correct. I'm hoping to support way more than just one database when the next version comes out. DB's I have in mind for support at release-time are MySQL, PostgreSql, and MSSql - so everyone on every platform gets a nice set of options.
  • KrakKrak New
    Ah, ok, sweet. Choices are good. I like choices.
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