[Pugged] GForge 3.0

[Tim Perdue]

dave@visionary.com wrote:

> On the features side... I know you mentioned once that you had written
> your own database abstraction. Does GForge use this, and if so, is it
> thoretically possible to run on different databases? Nothing against
> Postgres, I'm just not very familiar with it.

Yes, there is a layer for MySQL and Oracle, but neither one is currently 
up to date or maintained. There is some interest in back-porting it to 
MySQL, but it might take a little bit of re-coding, as I use subqueries 
in a few places. Maybe the latest mysql finally supports some of these 
rudimentary database features, but I don't know. ;-)

> Outlook sync'ing would be useful for those who use Outlook... but in
> my experience, a large % of open source developers don't use Outlook.

Fair enough, however a very large number of people use this code 
internally at corporations. Last I knew, over a year ago, it was used 
internally at Sony, IBM, GE, HP, Intel and several others I can't think of.

Tim