Re: Why are multiple revisions allowed in submissions

Change a little at a time.

I do have a RDBMS version of the server almost ready for testing.
Give me another few days to a week, at least I said this last week.  I
believe that RDBMS will allow for XML clients, without disturbing the
old clients.

freedb has been changing and improving over time.  If freedb weren't
this useful, people wouldn't complain about its shortcomings, it
would just be dropped.

"Andy Key" <[email protected]> writes:

> Wouldn't it be better to fix the flawed server-side logic instead
> (storing mandatory information in "comment" lines, update vs. insert
> semantics, get rid of genre as part of the primary key for CD's, no
> multiple entries for same CDDBID hash/genre combination, etc...)?
> Unfortunately, it was designed wrong from the very beginning (or
> probably just grew from a scetch on a napkin), and that makes it
> difficult to change once the critical mass of users has been reached.
>
> It would be nice if there was a good way to migrate away from the
> current DB format to an RDBMS, use XML for encoding submissions,
> updates and queries, which would allow for automatic validation and
> parsing without every single client having to reinvent the wheel.  XML
> has another nice side-effect of making it easy to use various
> character encodings.

-- 
Kevin Dalley
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