Re: gda-builder and gda-mgr

[Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja <rmoya tsai es>]

Brian Jepson wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja wrote:
>
> > There is no roadmap, sorry. We were talking about this last week, about
> > providing a shared lib for each provider which will implement a custom
> > widget providing the GUI for database administration. Although Michael
> > Lausch (the creator of the project) has suggested to implement them as
> > bonobo objects, but I don't know if this will fit Murray's needs (Murray
> > wanted to do the ODBC part of this tool to be integrated with both
> > gnome-db and the unixODBC project).
> >
>
> Murray, how are you planning to integrate GNOME-DB with UnixODBC?  Are you
> thinking of an ODBC-to-GNOME-DB bridge (effectively, an ODBC driver that
> talks to gda-client)?
>
> If that's the case, then we don't need to worry about each provider's
> configurator library being compatible with UnixODBC, because you
> will most likely have one configurator for UnixODBC that lets you
> specify which GDA data source to use.  If that's the case, then
> making the GDA configurators bonobo components is a good idea, and you can
> write the ODBC-to-GNOME-DB configurator to the UnixODBC configurator API.
>
> Even if there is a need to integrate a gda configurator into UnixODBC,
> perhaps we could write all GDA provider configurators to the same API that
> UnixODBC uses for configurators, and then develop a bonobo wrapper for
> that API?
>

I don't think Murray's plans are to integrate gda configurator into the
unixODBC project, but to have the ODBC part of the gda configurator work with
both. That is why we thought about a custom widget being implemented in the
shared lib, but the more I think about the bonobo stuff, the more I think
it's the way to go.

Cheers