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Posted By

Csabo
on 2005-12-27
13:13:23
 Re: Software Rarity

We could do a "member inventory", to code this would not be much trouble.

There's a deeper issue however, related to "releases" vs. "software". As it is, the database structure we've been building all these years is not good enough. "Software" and "release" are mingled together, but they should be separate entities. The first time this became evident was when we had two different product codes for one game (because it was released by two different companies, and each gave it a different code). So basically when we enter "software", it would have very few properties, and then for each software we would have to add at least one (but possibly more) "release" records. Release date, device req, product code, etc. would all be properties of the "release" and not the software. And of course the new "rarity" field would also go to "release" not software. Covers would be linked to releases as well.

To fix this would be a HUGE change. Basically every page that deals with software would have to be changed, along with the db itself. Or, we could just stick it out the way it currently is... Is it worth it?

James, this place is your site as much as it's anyone else's happy The whole point is to bring everything and everyone together under one big community effort. If we actually owned the host, we wouldn't be so stingy with FTP accounts either. (Right now we're just extremely grateful for the space and bandwidth.) Who knows, maybe someday we'll all pitch in and buy a new domain+host, a keep building it all together, where everyone can contribute and "do their thing".



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