[development] SQLite and Drupal 7 -- third coming

Dmitri Gaskin dmitrig01 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 00:39:28 UTC 2009


I understand how this improves installation, and i think it's fine to  
require it for installation, however I think that it should be  
optional after installation.

Dmitri

On Feb 4, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Moshe Weitzman wrote:

>> So I am still -1 on requiring SQLite in order for Drupal to  
>> function.  However, I am leaning more and more toward automatically  
>> using it if available.
>
> Stop. Read. We only get the primary benefit (code cleanliness) if we
> *require* SQLite. There is no point in doing this half-way. If you
> know of web hosts where Drupal would no longer work, please take the
> challenge at http://drupal4hu.com/node/177. So far, no such place is
> known.
>
> Also, Lets stop talking about deployment. chx solved that (no code
> yet). Apache would write SQLite file when it needs to. Site admins can
> be oblivious.



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