Re: any plan for ODBC support in GLOM?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:06 +1000, Noli Sicad wrote:
> > I guess you mean support for using any database server via ODBC, instead
> > of just PostgreSQL.
>
> Yes, Aside from it also meant GLOM odbc driver,

Again, Glom uses PostgreSQL, so why would a GlOM ODBC driver be
necessary?

>  so we can read glom
> data in scripting languages and then write back the in glom.
>
> > It could theoretically be possible because we use libgda, and I think
> > libgda supports ODBC. But the database server type is not generally
> > optional, because it's not of interest to the target users.
>
> > But the code has some support for SQLite, so ODBC support could also be
> > added for special situations if someone wanted to implement and maintain
> > it.
>
> Probably there will be options, what database to use - sqlite or
> postgresql in wizard dialog.

That's not interesting to the target users. It has a cost in usability
and code quality.

> ODBC support will be good. MS Access is a good product compare to
> Filemaker because of properly supported odbc  - read and write, inside
> Access and outside.
>
> I wish I am programmer so I can help in coding and maintain source code.


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