[Asterisk-Users] ANNOUNCEMENT : NEW CallingCard ApplicationforAsterisk

[Bob Goddard]

On Thursday 27 January 2005 20:08, Brian Capouch wrote:
> Bob Goddard wrote:
> >>ODBC is ultimately the way this stuff ought to all be coded.
> >
> > No it's not.
>
> Well that was sure a convincing argument :-)

You started it!

> The alternative seems to be nicely framed before us now in this very
> thread: everyone coding for hisher own favorite DB, flame wars about
> "you didn't pick the same one I thought is best" etc.
>
> I'm assuming the remainder of your thought was not ". . everyone should
> just go with the most popular DB and code things up in MySQL."

No, everyone should go what ever they are more comfortable with.
If the code does not have support for a certain database and a
user would like it, then why not have it in? The database specific
code should be as abstract as possible to allow this, perhaps being
written in its own little library.


B