Dave Miller wrote:
I've never actually had any intention of everyone needing to install MySQL in order to make use of the database. I had planned on it being a single database, accessible via the web. Querying would be done via forms. It seemed the easiest way to present all the data in a single place. I also thought it might be possible to enter application data, so that it can be queried for APIs the app requires, etc. Right now I will certainly work toward a flat file. I had intended to start with that anyway, and it is easily imported into SQL if choose to move in that direction. But as I've said, I'm certainly not an experienced programmer and so I have no real idea of what is possible with perl plus the power of awk. But I am sure once we can gather the data someone will be happy to help find ways to query it. :)
Another advantage of it being in a flat file is that different people can work on different versions of it and use diff, patch, cvs, etc to maintain them. This wouldn't be possible just through having a simple web interface. David