[Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Daniel Smith wrote:
> 
> As a developer of other things, but a user of OpenSim, I would say 'keep 
> sqlite'.
> 
> Keep the barriers to entry as low as possible.  If someone wants to try out
> OpenSim, make it easy for them.  Put your end-user hat on for a moment.

I would usually make the same argument and this was why I did feel a preference keeping sqlite.

However, on reflection, I'm not sure whether it actually helps that much.  OpenSim is always going 
to be somewhat complicated to set up and run so the added necessity to install a database as well 
doesn't seem too onerous to me.  Mysql is a pretty simple install on all platforms.

We also quite often seem to get situations where someone has started off with sqlite and later 
realizes that they need to convert everything to mysql in order to grow.  This can be an awkward 
process.  In addition, we already have a situation where some things are not implemented in sqlite 
(afaik, attachment persistence still isn't implemented there).  It might be better if we don't make 
the end-user suffer these issues.

Anyway, as Diva said, all this really depends on people stepping up to make the necessary code 
changes for sqlite.  If people do then it will remain in the codebase.  If nobody does then I think 
that we may be better off removing it for now.

> 
> cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Robert Martin <robertltux at gmail.com 
> <mailto:robertltux at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Just adding my thoughts given that XAMP is very easy to setup (heck it
>     would be simple to just have a pre-setup XAMP module as an add-on
>     download) sqlite is not really needed.
> 
>     side question i have a diva install where the DB crashed midway during
>     the first  migration stage do i need to dump the tables and start
>     over??
> 
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