Re: FW: MSSQL with GNATS

[Chad Walstrom]

Lucille Hayward wrote:
> Hi - first timer here so apologies if I'm asking about a well known
> fact; Is it possible to operate GNATS with MSSQL  - (Boss would be
> happy to do some small customisation but doesn't have much time right
> now to do anything major)?  If so, does anybody know of someone doing
> just that?

Mel is working on rolling in his gnats-dbi project [1]_ in to GNU GNATS.
This is his port of GNATS database backend to Oracle.  First on the list
to support, after the merger, is PostgreSQL.  You could drop in and add
a helping hand for MSSQL after GNATS 5.0 (the target release for full
integration of Mel's changes), or download the gnats-dbi code yourself
and start porting today.  I would suggest the use of this email as a
place to synchronize efforts.

In any case, GNATS is fairly customizable already.  Take a look at the
on-line documentation [2]_ for ideas on how to add, remove, and custom
fields from the database.

.. [1] http://professional.juniper.net/gnats/
.. [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/#documentation

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