Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Just the database API

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12: Re: Just the database API (response to 1)
Posted by Alfred Werner on 03/12/03 05:50 PM
I concur that a 'C' implementation would probably lead to a more difficult to maintain API - it is literally just convenience wrappers to make the accesses a little easier and the code a little tighter.

What I'm looking for is a Goldilocks release - when AOLserver is too raw, OpenACS is too cooked, but a nice database API and forms abstraction would be 'just right'...

I think with the leads I got from this thread I can start putting something together in that regard.

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19: Re: Just the database API (response to 12)
Posted by Jamie Rasmussen on 03/13/03 01:23 PM
I recently learned about "MiniACS". http://miniacs.sourceforge.net/  It was developed by zjednoczenie.com for use on the sites that they build.  More info at http://miniacs.zjednoczenie.com/snapshot.html

It needs a customized AOLserver that Tomasz Kosiak announced to the mailing list a few days ago - see the "AOLserver Improvement Proposal" thread.  (Mostly vserver-related stuff.)
I haven't used it and Tomasz has told me that they don't have the resources to support it.