On 17 May 2009, at 17:32, Andy Lee wrote:
On May 17, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Andreas Grosam wrote:
On May 16, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
[...]
Whining about how it doesn't support massive
multi-user applications makes absolutely no sense.
Now, I'm starting to wonder whether you had ever designed a
database application (or framework). Then you should have noticed
that this is a fundamental requirement. Maybe I'm biased, but I
cannot think of any modern third party framework related to the
database domain that does not support multi user.
No offense Andreas, but I think you're biased. :) Or rather you're
coming at this from the wrong direction. Yes, we would all love it
if Core Data was a true database framework in the sense you mean.
(Arguably an Excel library is a "modern third party framework
related to the database domain," but that's not what you mean.)
We'd love it if EOF had been revived. And initial misunderstanding
of what Core Data does is perfectly understandable. But it should
eventually become clear -- as it did to you -- what Core Data is and
isn't. It doesn't make sense to say scalable multi-user client-
server support is a fundamental requirement for something that is
explicitly not designed to be multi-user or client-server.
I think that Andreas understand the current design goals of CD
perfectly well, but that he is trying to put forward the idea that
perhaps it should support other database engines and multi-user access
in the future. And I agree. Most of the CD applications I work on
would be even more useful as multi-user applications. And bug reports
has been duly filed.
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