Re: GNU Enterprise

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

Christopher Wiegand wrote:
> 
> >Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >> Someone else wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >This will change very soon, as we're going to switch the providers and
> >client library to use OAF, the new GNOME's object activation library,
> >which is X-independant and GNOME-independant. And you can always create
> >your own clients by using the IDL files.
> 
> When this happens, what at that point will still be Gnome-dependant, other
> than the graphical widgets?
>
Apart from the widgets, all the bonobo part will be GNOME-dependant (of
course, until bonobo is somewhat ported to other toolkits). And,
although the bonobo part is quite small today, it will be extended
everywhere, since we must make gnome-db fully compatible with all the
gnome-office applications.
 
> I just read the rest of my email - since applications will only depend on
> OAF, Orbit, and glib (which I think is GREAT!), are we still going to keep
> the name "gnome-db"?
> 
Oops! I don't know if I like too much the idea, we'll see when this
happens. But I like gnome-db to be as it is today, the GNOME offical
database access famework, included in gnome-office, etc. But what other
people think about this?

Cheers