[Mimedefang] Latest MIME-Tools

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Sun Mar 21 15:05:21 EST 2004


On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Justin wrote:

Back on topic:  MIME-Tools is unmaintained.  We may ask the previous
maintainer for permission to take it over.  It's a bad situation to have
such a critical piece of software unmaintained.

> Really the only DB I would have considered was MySQL.

MySQL is no good for us because:

- It lacks foreign key constraints.

- It lacks subselects.

- It lacks transactions (well, InnoDB has transactions, but IMO they are still
  immature.)

- Its licensing is a problem if you want to use it for commercial purposes.
  This is really the killer for us; the other points could probably be
  worked around.

PostgreSQL poses no such problems.

Regards,

David.



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