Re: [gnome-db]GDAReport status

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome-db org>]

El 07 Jun 2001 13:34:48 +0200, Rodrigo Moya escribió:
> On 07 Jun 2001 02:34:43 +0200, David Marín Carreño wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > A lot of questions:
> > 
> > 1) I'd like to know about the status of GdaReport engine. 
> > Has its development been started? Is GdaReport a priority for 0.3.x ?
> > 
> yes, it's started, but does not work yet. In fact, the whole report
> client lib is implemented (not tested though), so the only missing part
> is the engine.

Rodrigo, at this moment the report client lib need to be updated, It
only has the .h files ans some old .c files. I hope that soon will be
finished, but now I have my final exams and you know ;-)



> 
> > 2) Where can I get more information (documentation) about XML queries? 
> >    Has anyone measure the loss of eficiency produced by using XML queries
> >    instead of native SQL?
> >
> the only info you can get about the XML queries is on the source code,
> well, and some docs, in libgda/lib/gda-common/gda-xml-query.
> About the efficiency problems, yes we're aware. But this is not a
> problem, since you can always use SQL if that's what you want. XML
> queries are optional, and will be used in places where we don't know
> anything about the underlying database (DB designer, export/import,
> query designer, etc).
> But, as I said, you can always use SQL if you want.
>  
> > 
> > We slowly continue with ASPL Fact, a billing and stock-managing
> > program. We have finished the database design, and we are about to finish
> > the design of data-managing modules.
> > 
> > We hope to have a first preview in October (with a bit of luck...), and we
> > must know the answer to these questions: we must make some final 
> > design decisions.
> > 
> BTW, did you get my mail about the GDA::Listener interface? This could be the
> solution for the logger you wanted to implement.
> 
> cheers
> --
> Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> <rodrigo ximian com>
> http://www.gnome-db.org/
> 
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