Using pydal for standalone scripts

[Tobiah]

I am looking into creating a database abstraction library using pydal
and mysql as the engine.  I noticed that I have to specify a 'folder'
with the connection string to tell pydal where to save "table files".

So I'll have hundreds of different databases and install this library
on many machines.  Do I need to standardize a place for these files and
make sure that directory exists on every machine that uses the library?
It seems rather cumbersome.  I mean, couldn't pydal have just put
this information into the database in its own private table?


Thanks!