[Asterisk-Dev] Current database abstraction effort ?

[Nicolas Bougues]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:21:14PM -0300, CW_ASN wrote:
> > It's definetly not a major issue, but before starting to work on it
> > I'd like to know what the community has to say about it.
> >
> > I found a few references to the way the FreeRadius people did it, and
> > I would probably make something similar, although there a a few things
> > in their design that I would make otherwise.
> 
> I think that the best part of this could be to use ODBC routines implemented
> by Brian, and I believe that it would not be very difficult to write this
> module (I'm thinking mainly in routing stuff).
> 

I'm not familiar at all with ODBC. But this is not my main conern, I
can learn.

However, I'm wondering whether adding unixodbc requirement to do
database handling may :
- make building asterisk harder (more packages to get)
- make it more prone to various lib incompatibilites (is unixodbc
  compatible between versions ?)
- add some unnecessary complexity, and/or have significant a
  performance cost. 
- not provide that much of an help : how well is unixodbc (and its
  database drivers) packaged in the most widespread distros
  (Debian, RH/Fedora, Suse, MDK...) ? 

Could the people familiar with unixODBC share their views on these
topics ?

-- 
Nicolas Bougues
Axialys Interactive