Re: [GNUnet-developers] Replacing lookup

[Christian Grothoff]

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> Either gdbm or MySQL is a huge dependency to put on GNUnet which virtually
> guarentees that no Windows user will ever run it. As long as we don't care
> if the network ever gets very large that may be fine. But Freenet has been
> extensively analyzed, simulated, and otherwise mathematically modeled, and
> it seems that the more nodes participate the better it will work. Lacking
> equivalent analysis I don't know how GNUnet compares but I don't think any
> Freenet/GNUnet system will be very successful if it ignores the Windows
> population.

MySQL is available for Windows (I just checked). If we make it trivial to 
setup, it may not be so bad. Keeping a "directory" storage as the optional 
way to do it under windows should not be that hard. As Igor said, the 
interface should allow for "hack3rs" to plug in other DB backends -- such as 
directories. 

Anyway, I should probably let the people doing the Windows port decide what is 
the best DB for them. But moving the API boundary / doing the proposed 
interface change should not be a problem -- if nothing else, the current code 
could still be adapted to be used by users that can't install MySQL.

Right, Igor?

Christian
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