Re: [siesta-dev] road to a release

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From: Greg McCarroll
Subject: Re: [siesta-dev] road to a release
Date: 21:48 on 10 Sep 2002
* Richard Clamp (richardc@xxxxxxxxx.xxx) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 06:56:30PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> > ... or at least an announcement.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this a verboten subject or something but - what needs to
> > be done to do an initial release?
> > 
> > The only major thing I can think of after today's checkins is the
> > initial installation of the database and maybe creation of a siesta user
> > or something for security reasons or summat.
> 
> And ensuring that subscriptions can happen from the wire.
> 
> > We have complete configuration via nacho,
> 
> Then t/05setup_database.t needs to be rewritten in terms of it.
>  
> >                                            we have installation
> > documentation, we have fairly comprehensive tests (I need to do tests
> > for the plugin order stuff I've done today)
> 
> I think the plugin order stuff is fucked.  Certainly I'd expect ID to
> be a unique column with a sequence on it and so specifying explicit
> values into it will just lead to badness.  An extra "order" column is
> probably called for, and since we're no longer doing things with
> Class::DBI we don't actually need that id field, so we may as well
> just rename it.
> 

imho, we should keep it, as it allows future storage mechanisms to abstract
better

i'll reply to the rest of the email tommorow

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