Re: gda-report and gnue (fwd)

[Derek Neighbors <d_neighbors llamacom com>]

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:00:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Thompson <jamest math ksu edu>
To: Carlos Perello Marin <carlos hispalinux es>
Cc: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>, derek gnue org, gnome-db gnome org
Subject: Re: gda-report and gnue


> > 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.

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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