On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:09:11 -0500, Syscrusher <syscrusher@4th.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 22:39 -0600, Larry Garfield wrote:
4) Should I just shut up and go back into my corner?
Of course not. :-P
Heartily agreed. Whether or not we adopt chx's suggestions, it is an idea worthy of discussion.
Having a read-only initial conditions database in SQLite also offers us the potential for an administrative "reset entire site to defaults" option, which could reset all settings but not delete nodes or users (or could offer the admin the option of these two things). This would be a great last-resort recovery option for confused novices, and it would be a fine testing aid for us developers.
I am not yet ready to say +1 to adopting chx's suggestion, but I'm ready to say +1 for discussing it seriously.
Scott
To clarify, I am not against an SQLite DB as a "Safe mode" fallback, or as an install mechanism. Those are both definitely worth considering. It's making a secondary DB required for normal operation that I do not believe is a good idea. --Larry Garfield