Re: GNU Enterprise

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

cdwiegand@gmx.net wrote:
> 
> Please note, this is MY opinion, not my employer, the group, or anyone else
> but me! You may now read on:
> 
> > But then, if we used gnome-db for GNUe, we would have to make all
> > servers
> > and the
> > client library ** completely gnome-independent ** as we want to be
> > multi-platform as well.
> 
> Personally and professionally, I would **love** to see a good API that is
> independant from X not to mention GTK and Gnome, however, it's not easy (I
> tried before I joined this group). It would become the ADO of Free Software
> and Open Source everywhere.
> 
> I can certainly understand making the graphical parts separate (and
> dependant on X) from the rest of the code, which would of course require glib,
> perhaps even gtk. Also, the possibility of reducing duplication of effort would
> be great! (KDE doesn't have a DB API yet, but that's not going to take them
> long to realise, and obviously if gnome-db can't be what they need, then
> GNU-E here is also going to have to make their own API...)
> 
As I said in my previous post, all this will be fixed as soon as we
switch to OAF. Then, applications will only depend on glib, ORBit and
OAF.