Re: gnome-db team

[Chris Wiegand <cwiegand urgentmail com>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> We've successfully, after some months, completed the gnome-db team for
> the moment. Right now, we're in a position I wanted some time ago, that
> is, there is one person for each provider, so now I can go on holidays
> for a couple of years, until you reach the 1.0 version....

<panic realism="off"> I don't think so!!! :) </panic>

> So, I'd like to start defining the config component stuff. The bonobo
> part is clear, isn't it? We'll code a sample bonobo control which will
> just include a container widget created by each of the providers' config
> component. My idea about what the component will do is that it should do
> whatever you want (and can). That is, the ODBC widget will be just a DSN
> configurator, as the windows version does, but the oracle provider can,
> for example, allow the creation of users, databases, ... management of
> tablespaces, quotas, etc, and any other provider whatever is possible
> with the underlying database. What do you think?

Hmm... exactly how does the client-lib (aka the MySQL folder I'm
maintaining) define the interface, although it may be on another machine
(IIRC the mysql provider would be a component, so it could be on the other
side of the internet...)? Are we going to use GTK? Glade? Another API?
Just wanting to know so that I can brush up on it.

> Also, I'd like all of the providers' people to say your opinion about
> the interface in the servers, the missing schemas (this is very
> important), .... because as we're starting to have several stable
> providers, I don't want to add more and more providers if the design
> does not fit any kind of data source.

Hmmm...How about data providers like ApacheLog and TextFile? (I've been
toying with the ideas, but won't dare implement them until I'm VERY
comfortable with the API.) I'm assuming that, for instance, with TextFile,
I would probably present it to gda as a single table, with just about
everything being a varchar (ur...string) in the table schema. Does a
provider have to support everything?

Just tossing this out since it sounds
a major change may be in progress. Can you imagine how useful (read: cool)
it would be to make a report in gnome-db using a mysql engine, your web
server logs, and perhaps a CSV file tying them altogether? It sounds like
some major voodoo to implement it, but hey, I'm in it for the fun. :)

> [
> BTW Chris, did you get my mail about the CVS account?
> ]

Yeah, and I got the copy of the folder, I'm going to untar it after this
mail.