Hi All,
I am wondering how difficult it would be to use wiki with Sybase ASE. Has anyone attempted this with any amount of success? I'm willing to work on this with others who may be interested. I've downloaded mediawiki 1.6.8 (due to PHP4) and just starting to look around.
Thanks, Mark
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 00:26, Mark K wrote:
Hi All,
I am wondering how difficult it would be to use wiki with Sybase ASE. Has anyone attempted this with any amount of success? I'm willing to work on this with others who may be interested. I've downloaded mediawiki 1.6.8 (due to PHP4) and just starting to look around.
If your serious about this, your best bet (IMHO) is to get a copy of the code from SVN and take at look at the changes made for PostgreSQL support and then go about making similar patches for sybase. Dont expect to just dump the whole patch back to the devs though, you should probably aim toward delivering incremental patches back, and on top of that make sure to test your changes on mysql (and postgresql to be nice) to make sure you haven't broken anything.
"Robert Treat" xzilla@users.sourceforge.net wrote in message news:200609042159.08811.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net...
If your serious about this, your best bet (IMHO) is to get a copy of the code from SVN and take at look at the changes made for PostgreSQL support and then go about making similar patches for sybase. Dont expect to just dump the whole patch back to the devs though, you should probably aim toward delivering incremental patches back, and on top of that make sure to test your changes on mysql (and postgresql to be nice) to make sure you haven't broken anything.
Hi Robert,
Thank you for your comments. I don't know mysql, postgresql, or oracle, but I do know Sybase ASE. Since you mention using the postgres code, I'll assume it is closest in syntax to Sybase T-SQL. Sybase has a free edition which runs on Linux and can be used in production environments. http://www.sybase.com/linuxpromo There are limits, but it works for the Wiki I'd like to create.
I would appreciate your further comments on how challenging you think this might be since I don't know the other DBMS products. You mention testing my changes on them, but wouldn't my changes only be for the Sybase code? Testing / Learning other DBMS's might be more than I can take on.
Regards, Mark
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:01:21AM -0400, Mark K wrote:
I would appreciate your further comments on how challenging you think this might be since I don't know the other DBMS products. You mention testing my changes on them, but wouldn't my changes only be for the Sybase code? Testing / Learning other DBMS's might be more than I can take on.
Porting a DBMS based app to a new DBMS? Porting it to the 4th database will likely be a lot less taxing than porting to the *second*, but still probably somewhere between non-trivial and highly non-trivial.
Your best bet might well be to track down the guy who did the PostGres patches, and talk to them.
Cheers, -- jra
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