[freeside] Slashdot reader has valuable input?

[ivan]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:54:00AM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
> 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.

You can do that now; The pretty_print method from DBIx::DBSchema should
generate code that will work in tables_hash_hack fine.

> > >, 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.

oh well...

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meow
_ivan