On 7/22/07, Peter Brooks <peter@???> wrote:
> Hello all,
> This is a little bit specialist but hopefully relevant to the people on this
> list.
> I'm currently developing my first major pygtk application and it's come to
> the time to make decisions over users & groups for the application, the
> sofware itself is a radio station playout system, of which has multiple
> users and groups. Ie for all the dj's at the radio station.
>
> The system will have jingles, beds, adverts on it and some will be sharable
> between different users and groups.
> My question is along the line of how to store details about the users &
> groups, do I use the linux system of users, home directories and the like or
> do I invent my own system within pygtk?
> The application is also being ported to windows, so there will exist some
> compatibility issues.
My guess is that if it is being ported to windows then using the Linux
system of users is out of the question.
Have you considered using pysqlite to store all the relevant
information? It could be bundled up as part of your software as it has
a very liberal license and would probably work equally well on
Windows.
Adam
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