Add a fully open source server stack (additionally)

[art-ist]

The first approach is testing the existing service stack under mono and using PostgreSQL + PostGIS as a database. Other approaches like directly having the breese layer talk to Node.js/NoSQL or an other OData complient server will be evaluated.

[art-ist]

Currently investigating MariaDB (the still truly open source alternative to MySQL).

Pros:

• easy to get started with
• free connectors for Entity Framework (few changes needed to the rest of the server stack)
• spacial datatypes included
• "binary drop in" compliant to MySQL

Cons:

• will see ;-)

[almereyda]

https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge may provide a porting/migration path.

[art-ist]

MIT - Licensed .NET 5 (see Github Repos) is something we definetley will port to as soon as possible. This schouldn't be too much effort (hopefully ;)

[almereyda]

I advice doing so within an empty VM, so all neccessary installation steps can be reproduced.

[art-ist]

Don't mix up development and deployment. But, yes, documented deployment to a dedicated VM, mabe collaborativley, is something we should do as soon as any server stack, is in beta state.

[almereyda]

@art-ist Indeed, I do mix them up, by reason: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=DevOps

Please also refer to http://12factor.net/.

[art-ist]

There's a ASP.NET 5 Preview Docker Image now https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/microsoft/aspnet/ @almereyda: maybe you whant to check that out.

[art-ist]

Refactored the EntityFramework Code to use Code First. So it is much easier to implement DB (and API) cahnges. It also should be easier to use this implementation as a template for other ones.

[art-ist]

Server perfectly compiles under Xamarin Studio and checks fine with MoMA but still has PlatformNotSupportedException to need integrated pipeline mode. Maybe this will help in migration of server and DB: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/web/porting-aspnet-applications/