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Throwing up hands in resignation and finally deleting the metakit backend.
It's just too out-of-sync with the rest of Roundup's backends and has
fundamental compatibility issues. Also, I've never really understood
the code.
| author | Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net> |
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| date | Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:52:26 +0000 |
| parents | 586679a314f7 |
| children | 29dfb873b32e |
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| 1 ================== | 1 ================== |
| 2 Installing Roundup | 2 Installing Roundup |
| 3 ================== | 3 ================== |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 :Version: $Revision: 1.127 $ | 5 :Version: $Revision: 1.128 $ |
| 6 | 6 |
| 7 .. contents:: | 7 .. contents:: |
| 8 :depth: 2 | 8 :depth: 2 |
| 9 | 9 |
| 10 | 10 |
| 284 ========== =========== ===== ============================== | 284 ========== =========== ===== ============================== |
| 285 Name Speed Users Support | 285 Name Speed Users Support |
| 286 ========== =========== ===== ============================== | 286 ========== =========== ===== ============================== |
| 287 anydbm Slowest Few Always available | 287 anydbm Slowest Few Always available |
| 288 sqlite Fastest(*) Few May need install (PySQLite_) | 288 sqlite Fastest(*) Few May need install (PySQLite_) |
| 289 metakit Fastest(*) Few Needs install (metakit_) | |
| 290 postgresql Fast Many Needs install/admin (psycopg_) | 289 postgresql Fast Many Needs install/admin (psycopg_) |
| 291 mysql Fast Many Needs install/admin (MySQLdb_) | 290 mysql Fast Many Needs install/admin (MySQLdb_) |
| 292 ========== =========== ===== ============================== | 291 ========== =========== ===== ============================== |
| 293 | 292 |
| 294 **sqlite** | 293 **sqlite** |
| 295 These use the embedded database engines PySQLite_ and metakit_ to provide | 294 This uses the embedded database engine PySQLite_ to provide a very fast |
| 296 very fast backends. They are not suitable for trackers which will have | 295 backend. This is not suitable for trackers which will have many |
| 297 many simultaneous users, but require much less installation and | 296 simultaneous users, but requires much less installation and maintenance |
| 298 maintenance effort than more scalable postgresql and mysql backends. | 297 effort than more scalable postgresql and mysql backends. |
| 299 | 298 |
| 300 SQLite is supported via PySQLite versions 1.1.7, 2.1.0 and sqlite3 (the last | 299 SQLite is supported via PySQLite versions 1.1.7, 2.1.0 and sqlite3 (the last |
| 301 being bundled with Python 2.5+) | 300 being bundled with Python 2.5+) |
| 302 | 301 |
| 303 Installed SQLite should be the latest version available (3.3.8 is known | 302 Installed SQLite should be the latest version available (3.3.8 is known |
| 304 to work, 3.1.3 is known to have problems). | 303 to work, 3.1.3 is known to have problems). |
| 305 **metakit** | |
| 306 Similar performance to sqlite. If you are choosing between these two, | |
| 307 please select sqlite. | |
| 308 **postgresql** | 304 **postgresql** |
| 309 Backend for popular RDBMS PostgreSQL. You must read doc/postgresql.txt for | 305 Backend for popular RDBMS PostgreSQL. You must read doc/postgresql.txt for |
| 310 additional installation steps and requirements. You must also configure | 306 additional installation steps and requirements. You must also configure |
| 311 the ``rdbms`` section of your tracker's ``config.ini``. It is recommended | 307 the ``rdbms`` section of your tracker's ``config.ini``. It is recommended |
| 312 that you use at least version 1.1.21 of psycopg. | 308 that you use at least version 1.1.21 of psycopg. |
| 1035 | 1031 |
| 1036 | 1032 |
| 1037 .. _External hyperlink targets: | 1033 .. _External hyperlink targets: |
| 1038 | 1034 |
| 1039 .. _apache: http://httpd.apache.org/ | 1035 .. _apache: http://httpd.apache.org/ |
| 1040 .. _metakit: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/ | |
| 1041 .. _mod_python: http://www.modpython.org/ | 1036 .. _mod_python: http://www.modpython.org/ |
| 1042 .. _MySQLdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python | 1037 .. _MySQLdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python |
| 1043 .. _Psycopg: http://initd.org/software/initd/psycopg | 1038 .. _Psycopg: http://initd.org/software/initd/psycopg |
| 1044 .. _pysqlite: http://pysqlite.org/ | 1039 .. _pysqlite: http://pysqlite.org/ |