Re: Re: Bug #1284 Updated: No way to choose db which db implementation to use

On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 06:32:52PM -0800, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > > There's actually two possible projects for someone who is interested > > here: > > > > 1. Add the appropriate configure magic so that someone can select which > > dbm-like package to use. > > This was the one I submitted the pr on. Not being able to do this is > arguably an installation buglet. Item 2 below is clearly an enhancement. Hack aclocal.m4 and run autoconf. This works, although it is terrible ugly. > > 2. Make it so that multiple dbm-like packages can be used at once. > > This could be tricky with different libraries defining the same entry > point names... (Although, providing run-time choice among the built-in > flatfile access, gdbm, and some version of db shouldn't be too difficult.) I began this once and implemented it for GDBM. It is working, but I currently don't have time to extend it. More or less working code is on http://sasweb.de/dba.tar.gz -- Regards, Sascha Schumann | Consultant | finger sas@schell.de | for PGP public key -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net