Hi Adam,
Thanks for the reply, the original message was a bit hashed but I see your
points.
I have played with php sqlite and found it quite nimble, I think giving each
dj at a radio station a separate linux login is a practical mistake, so will
experiment and reply later.
On 24/07/07, Adam Cripps <kabads@???> wrote:
>
> 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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