Re: patch to display new PR number for new submissions

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 13:14 03.02.2003 -0800, Mel Hatzis wrote:
> While we're on the topic of a 4.1 branch, I'd like to know if there's
> any interest in supporting alternative backend datastores for Gnats.
>
> I've been working on this for a couple of months now, and have made
> some progress....the work has involved creating a datastore API
> based on the current 'flat-file' code, moving the index into the
> flat-file datastore and some configure related modifications to
> support building Gnats against different datastore options. I've
> also added an option to run Gnats in long-running-daemon mode,
> to support things like database connection pools.
>
> If there's interest, I'll submit the changes I have thus far for
> review, and perhaps they can be rolled into the 4.1 development
> effort. I've done a great deal of testing of the 'flat-file'
> datastore implementation, based entirely on the existing Gnats code,
> and it holds up well.

Yes, yes, yes! The ability to use alternative datastores would be an 
extremely welcome new feature. There was some talk about it about a year 
and a half ago, but the whole thing died quietly.

- Yngve