[Roadster] Status & Roadmap

[Nathaniel Alderson]

On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 18:00 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >   * New "database". I think using a general-purpose database like
> >     MySQL probably made it easier to get started, but I think its the
> >     wrong thing going forward long-term, (in terms of both storage
> >     requirements and performance). I don't know if any existing
> >     project has a good start on something appropriate yet.
> >
> >   * Keep things light enough for a small, embedded device. The neo1973
> >     with integrated GPS looks _really_ interesting here, (especially
> >     if free-software drivers for the GPS appear).
> 
> You can tackle both things by having an sqlite3 backend. Ian mentioned that roadster
> relies on 'full text index' which only mysql seem to have, but didn't raise any other
> concerns, so supporting sqlite shouldn't be too hard.

It might be a worthwhile to use the libgda abstraction so that roadster
could support different database backends as needed.

http://www.gnome-db.org/