["Carlos Perello Marin" <carlos hispalinux es>] Re: gda-report and gnue

[Carlos Perello Marin <carlos hispalinux es>]

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• From: Carlos Perello Marin <carlos hispalinux es>
• To: James Thompson <jamest math ksu edu>
• Cc: Carlos Perello Marin <carlos hispalinux es>, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>, derek gnue org, gnome-db gnome org
• Subject: Re: gda-report and gnue
• Date: 13 Sep 2000 15:39:08 -0100

> 
> > > if we all agree in putting it in GDA, this should be libgda-report, but
> > > please 
> 
> Please forgive me for jumping into the middle of this.  I'm behind on
> mail and have yet to get cvs libgda to build for testing in gnue forms
> (I know it was covered on the list but the archive links are broken)
> 
> I think the report system should be seperate from gda as I see libgda in
> the same light as ODBC, Perl's DBI, etc.  It's an API to access
> data.  Following this naming/packaging scheme we'd name products like
> odbc-reports, perl-dbi-reports, etc.

But for this old the *-reports need the gda-xml-query API, remember
it!!!


> 
> Putting a report system into libgda adds bloat and confuses the
> purpose IMHO.  I see a much better seperation as 
> 
>            data source
>                 |
>               libgda
>                 |
>       ______________________________________________________
>       |                |                  |                |
>   GNUe Reports     gnome-db           GNUe Forms      Other Apps
>   (I'm bias :)     (the gtk stuff)                    using libgda
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm overlooking something?
> 
> Take Care
> James
> 
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