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| author | Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> | 2011-07-02 17:05:13 -0500 |
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| committer | Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> | 2011-07-02 17:05:13 -0500 |
| commit | a24dbd451c2c255321f6d87c669585d21e08ca7a (patch) | |
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Note from Chris Webber prefacing Elrond's DB abstraction idea.
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diff --git a/mediagoblin/db/__init__.py b/mediagoblin/db/__init__.py index f0116083..776025ca 100644 --- a/mediagoblin/db/__init__.py +++ b/mediagoblin/db/__init__.py @@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ Database Abstraction/Wrapper Layer ================================== + **NOTE from Chris Webber:** I asked Elrond to explain why he put + ASCENDING and DESCENDING in db/util.py when we could just import from + pymongo. Read beow for why, but note that nobody is actually doing + this and there's no proof that we'll ever support more than + MongoDB... it would be a huge amount of work to do so. + + If you really want to prove that possible, jump on IRC and talk to + us about making such a branch. In the meanwhile, it doesn't hurt to + have things as they are... if it ever makes it hard for us to + actually do things, we might revisit or remove this. But for more + information, read below. + This submodule is for most of the db specific stuff. There are two main ideas here: |