Re: GNU Enterprise

[<bob thestuff net>]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> 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?

gnome already depends on alot of things without "gnome" in the name. I
dont see any harm in changeing the name, especially if it will apease
people not wanting to use anything with the word "gnome" in the name.

> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
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