PLZ ADD Built-in Lua DB Lib TO MT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LMD]

It is no secret MT uses DBs to store worlds.
Is there a way to access DBs in LUA without having to use a custom lib ? Is there already an included lib ? If not, we should consider adding SQLite : http://lua.sqlite.org/index.cgi/doc/tip ... lite3.wiki maybe, or something else...
EDIT : The core developer/build team should really consider including LuaSQLite3 in their builds, it should be kinda default in MT.

[SonosFuer]

Just curious, Why?

[hajo]

Is there a way to access DBs in LUA

See the lua-wiki about DatabaseAccess.

[rubenwardy]

Not yet, but this is planned

[Linuxdirk]

Just curious, Why?

Because currently there are no backends that are properly supported (i.e. all green or blue) out-of-the-box.

https://wiki.minetest.net/Database_backends

[Pyrollo]

Just curious, Why?

IMO it would be much cleaner to have a good database storage for mod information instead of files (DB is supposed to guarantee data againts corruption, all information in one place...).

[LMD]

*hope this bumps the thread it is really important*

[sofar]

I think most devs are proponents of exposing sqlite (not DB, if we have to be pedantic) into lua, but it may require significant work to make it reasonably safe so that mods can't conflict with eachother. lsqlite3 is easy to port, I could also see this being offered as a standard part of the minetest downloadable ("require 'lsqilte3'") as well to avoid some of those issues.

In any case, enough projects have been made recently that would warrant the inclusion of an SQLite api that I think it'll happen at some point.