Re: Kura 0.0.1

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Charles wrote:

>
> It is best to segment the pieces that can be separated,
> and so re-use the work of others. KDE + MySQL + etc mean
> non-reinvention of lots of wheels, and won't be invalidated
> by every new Micro$oft release. Anyone can boot Linux now,
> it is freely downloadable and well worth the effort to learn.
> Win9x is going away soon, besides which it sucks now, IMO.
> I have "argued" previously with Mr. B. about some of these
> components, but he had good reasons for each. My choices
> given *infinite* time and energy would be PostgreSQL, Perl, and
> just plain X (or TK?), but certainly it must be free-unixoid.
> BTW, if I use this toy, I will contribute in some way.
>
I'm trying to get MySQLdb working, which complies to the Python standard
database api - as soon as that works, PostgresSQL and any other database
that has a db-api compliant module will work. I've already got a running
instance of Postgres to play with ;-).

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt