[OpenSER-Devel] Re: [OpenSER-Users] Renaming the DB modules

Christian Schlatter cs at unc.edu
Thu Oct 4 15:53:37 CEST 2007


Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> during the reviewing process of the new DB module for Berkeley, I made 
> proposal to make a naming convention for all the modules implementing 
> the DB API.
> 
> I suggest something similar as for the modules implementing the MI 
> interface, all having the "mi_" prefix. So, for the DB modules we should 
> use "db_" prefix:
>    db_berkeley
>    mysql -> db_mysql
>    postgres -> db_postgres
>    dbtext -> db_text
>    unixodbc -> db_unixodbc
>    flatstore -> db_flatstore
> 
> 
> Does anybody see any drawback or problem if we rename the module before 
> 1.3?

This makes sense but I second Hennings concerns of doing that for 1.3. 
While it might look like a small change, there will be lots of side effects.

/Christian



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