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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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--- a/doc/installation.txt Fri Oct 26 01:34:43 2007 +0000 +++ b/doc/installation.txt Fri Oct 26 06:52:26 2007 +0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Installing Roundup ================== -:Version: $Revision: 1.127 $ +:Version: $Revision: 1.128 $ .. contents:: :depth: 2 @@ -286,25 +286,21 @@ ========== =========== ===== ============================== anydbm Slowest Few Always available sqlite Fastest(*) Few May need install (PySQLite_) -metakit Fastest(*) Few Needs install (metakit_) postgresql Fast Many Needs install/admin (psycopg_) mysql Fast Many Needs install/admin (MySQLdb_) ========== =========== ===== ============================== **sqlite** - These use the embedded database engines PySQLite_ and metakit_ to provide - very fast backends. They are not suitable for trackers which will have - many simultaneous users, but require much less installation and - maintenance effort than more scalable postgresql and mysql backends. + This uses the embedded database engine PySQLite_ to provide a very fast + backend. This is not suitable for trackers which will have many + simultaneous users, but requires much less installation and maintenance + effort than more scalable postgresql and mysql backends. SQLite is supported via PySQLite versions 1.1.7, 2.1.0 and sqlite3 (the last being bundled with Python 2.5+) Installed SQLite should be the latest version available (3.3.8 is known to work, 3.1.3 is known to have problems). -**metakit** - Similar performance to sqlite. If you are choosing between these two, - please select sqlite. **postgresql** Backend for popular RDBMS PostgreSQL. You must read doc/postgresql.txt for additional installation steps and requirements. You must also configure @@ -1037,7 +1033,6 @@ .. _External hyperlink targets: .. _apache: http://httpd.apache.org/ -.. _metakit: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/ .. _mod_python: http://www.modpython.org/ .. _MySQLdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python .. _Psycopg: http://initd.org/software/initd/psycopg