On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:32:26AM +0100 or thereabouts, John Levon wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:27:49PM +1200, Michael Koziarski wrote:
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> > 4) Add Web Frontend to database allowing logged in users to add news.
>
> why would we want this ? What is the failing with current CVS based system ?
CVS is great. But having the news in a database has some big gains.
Such as searching, indexing etc. CVS doesn't offer a way to add to a
SQL database so that presents a problem.
I guess the question is Database or flat files. If we go with flat
files then a web "news-adding-area" is unnecessary.
> > 5) Start poking about in src/frontends/gnome again.
>
> yeah, definitely !
Shouldn't be too long now. Just need a bunch of free time to
materialise :)
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