[Mailman-Developers] When will mailman 1.2 be released?

[Ricardo Kustner]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:34:03PM -0500, Christopher Petrilli wrote:
> Ricardo - Miss Janet . Fanclub [ricardo@miss-janet.com] wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:14:43PM -0500, Alok Dhir wrote:
> > > 	1.  Ability to search for members by email address
> > > 	2.  Ability to store membership info in a Mysql database
> > > It would also be great if one could extend the schema of the subscriber
> > > database to include additinal fields (name, address, etc), but this is a
> > > much lower priority than the other two...
> > Actually I've been thinking of some way to integrate (My)SQL with Mailman.
> > It would be great if you could choose to have all the configuration stored
> > in any form of DB you want, instead of the python db (the name slipped me
> > for a moment here)... but i guess that would mean a major rewrite of
> > a lot of MM's fuctinality... 
> > or maybe the user db could be separated from config.db... 
> Pleas don't assume MySQL when you write this... at the very least write an
> abstraction layer that uses the DB-API to access it... a lot of us don't 
> use MySQL (we're built on Oracle, Sybase and DB2)... :-)
I didn't assume MySQL at all... that's why I wrote it like (my)SQL... :)
does python has something simular like Perl's DBI module ? 

> > does anybody have some thoughts on this too?
> I have a lot of thoughts, I can try and wrap them together over the
> weekedn, including posting some E-R diagrams.

thats great :) i'm glad i'm not alone in this...


Ricardo.

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