Re: [Ganymede Dev] Not a topic for dev I guess

[Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 02:27:47PM +0000, John King wrote:
| 
| Hi Jon
| 
| Bad news, our employers don't think they want to continue with ganymede, 
| they rather want to start implementing scripts in PHP using MySQL.

That's not a bad call, I might make the same, given what you're
wanting to do and the current state of Ganymede, PHP and MySQL might
be more expedient.

| Now I personally think Ganymede might be over long term a better manager 
| for DNS (considering we'll not only use DNS but useraccounts managing e.g. 
| too)
| 
| And as you are the maker of Ganymede I figured you can give a whole list of 
| arguments pleeding for Ganymede, right?
| 
| Anyway we're looking for alternatives now, so I guessed let's come up with 
| some good arguments for Ganymede :)

The biggest thing that Ganymede would give you would be transactional
support, so you could be assured that only one user at a time would be
editing something at whatever level of granularity you construct your
data model for.  Only one user at a time would be editing a system,
for example.

Likewise, Ganymede has integrated transactional support for
namespace/value allocation, so that you can fairly easily guarantee
that no two users will be given the same I.P. address for a new system
allocation.

In addition, Ganymede gives you a (rather) advanced user
interface.. sadly, this benefit is reduced when you're wanting to
manage hierarchical DNS.

Ganymede gives you automatic (and configurable) email notification of
changes to your data, and complete logging of all changes.

Ganymede's split-build transactional design allows you to commit
transactions into the system at a high rate of speed, while
efficiently serializing rebuilds of your DNS and what-not.

This last point might be mitigated if you go to a MySQL-backed DNS
server.

| Regards,
| 
| Jan Bonne Aans
| DTO, TU Delft
| The Netherlands
| 
| PS I can zip my work and mail it to you if you like

Please, I'd very much like to have that.  As I think I mentioned, I'm
wanting to shuffle around the Ganymede code tree and incorporate
internationalization support while I'm at it.  I'd be interested in
seeing what you've done for custom coding as well.

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