[vdr] Re: Should Master-Timer use a Database?

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:23:10AM +0200, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> 
> 
> > Any opinions on that? (Anyone against that?)
> 
> I don't think that very complex queries have to be done on those data. 
> It would be a GREAT idea to convert'em in xml files, so it would be very 
> simple to write external programs to edit them, xsl stylesheets to 
> convert'em in other formats, etc

Hmm. Technically theres no problem at all. But that's not my question.
:-)

The only point of a database is that it makes many jobs in Master-Timer
easier. And would make the program much simpler (and smaller) than it is
now.




Bis denn

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