[freeside] Slashdot reader has valuable input?

Kristian Hoffmann khoff at pc-intouch.com
Thu Jan 11 09:54:09 PST 2001


On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, ivan wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:26:32PM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
> > We've made modification's to support wireless as well.  As soon as I get
> > the database changes to Ivan
> 
> DBIx::DBSchema on CPAN is directly descended from the schema-handling
> stuff in Freeside (FS::dbdef and friends).  When I get a free minute,
> Freeside will switch over to DBIx::DBSchema.
> The relevance to you is that instead of patching fs-setup "manually", you
> can use DBIx::DBSchema to read your existing schema from MySQL or Pg, and
> generate source code to drop right into the tables_hash_hack subroutine of
> fs-setup. 

Can I do that now, or is that after you switch it.
 
> >, he can put it in CVS.  I can tell you from
> > experience, rewriting the whole thing was not necessary.
> 
> Yep, adding new services shouldn't be too difficult.  Did you find
> eg/table_template-svc.pm useful?

I didn't know that existed.  I just read the other svc_*.pm files as a
reference.
 
-Kristian





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