Hi List,

I was working on the SQL parser, and sat pondering it for a while, and I wrote up a design note.

I couldn't figure out where to put it, so I filed it under features for the moment. (I created a category 'Design Notes' there).

In an effort to clean up the feature tracker and make our plans for the future more clearly laid out, I propose we each try to summarize the current feature tracker items into a set of design notes, that contain all the information needed to work on a specific facet of the overall program.

I've just written up one about the SQL parser. Over the next while I'll write up notes about the db-config and session-security stuff.

If you have been working on a specific part of PMA a lot, and have plans for it, write them up in a design note as well.

Alex's discussion the other day about character sets on Macs for example, is something that needs to be looked at. I think in the long term a set of functions handling strings will be needed. I started writing stuff up once before in libraries/string.lib.php. I'll be commiting a bit more code in there later on to hopefully fix a long standing multi-byte character bug with the SQL parser.