If the Database class wasn't so mysql-centric and all
queries have been abstracted, the child database class
could, in theory, retrieve data from any type of source,
as long as it returns the format expected by the
software, Sql results.
This is all in theory though, since its a pie in the sky :)
-Chad
On Dec 4, 2008 6:22 PM, "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://advogato.org/article/994.html
Peer-to-peer git repositories. Imagine a MediaWiki with the data
stored in git, and updates distributed peer-to-peer.
"Imagine if Wikipedia could be mirrored locally, run on a local
mirror, where content was pushed and pulled, GPG-Digitally-signed;
content shared via peer-to-peer instead of overloading the Wikipedia
servers."
This would certainly go some way to solving the "a good dump is all
but impossible" problem ...
(so, anyone hacked up a git backend for MediaWiki revisions rather
than MySQL? :-) )
- d.
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