[storm] Moving Storm Forward

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> Project scope is what worries me about my own hopes (or is it dreams?) for
> Storm.

Supporting new databases is well within the wishes we have for the
project, so you can continue dreaming about it, and maybe they'll even
become reality at some point.

> My "best" solution so far is to:
>   1) finish making Storm work on adodbapi on Windows
>   2) make a fork of adodbapi which will run on ado.NET using IronPython.
>   3) make Storm work on that platform
>   4) port adodbapi to IronPython on Mono on Linux.
>   5) make Storm work on that platform
>
> I think you will agree that is a very large scope.

It actually doesn't look like a *lot* of work, once the basics are in
place.  If we make Storm work with adodbapi, I'd expect that getting
it to work with the other platforms should be a matter of tweaking it
up, rather than a massive amount of work.

> I hope that you will also see the potential of that scope. I personally
> cannot see why any intellegent person would want to use either SQL Server,
> or .NET, or IronPython, or Windows --  but there are millions of users (and
(...)

I'm sure quite a few of them have no idea about why we use that Linux
thing either. :-)

> In the future, will Storm communicate with the unwashed masses?  It requires
(...)

I hope it will!  As you've seen, there are people interested in seeing
these databases integrated, and we do want help integrating them.

> Glad to hear it. I will be happy to learn that my pessimism is unwarranted.

Thanks for pushing us.  That kind of conversation is actually welcome,
as it makes everyone think a bit about what's going on.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net