Re: Why don't use GnomeDbDict in Glom

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:21 -0500, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
> In all your releases exist the legent about Glom, can't work with a
> data base don't created for him; why don't use GnomeDbDict to know
> about the structure of the data base and leave the developer to select
> wich data, table or any thing on that data base exist to create your
> own GUI.

Glom does check that the database has the expected structure.

However, Glom is not meant to support countless field types, with
countless options, and every obscure postgres feature.

> In the gnome-db 1.3 seires, exist a dictionary (GnomeDbDict) asigned
> to a XML file updated with the structure of the data base, that could
> be the way to use any type of data base provider and structure, may be
> created before or actually used with other front ends.

-- 
Murray Cumming
murrayc murrayc com
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com