Re: [gnome-db] a couple of questions

[Mike + Julie <wingert 3 postbox acs ohio-state edu>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 06:26, Mike + Julie wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've been hacking on the sybase provider (currently I'm fixing the error
> > handling) and I have a couple of questions:
> >
> wow, that's great!
>

thanks!

> it's not possible I'm afraid :-( Although it wouldn't be too hard to do
> it, but it involves modifying the IDL interfaces and all the providers
> accordingly.
>
> That is, we could change the Command::execute method on the providers to
> return a RecordsetList instead of a single Recordset.
>

Is there a function that can return a RecordsetList that I can impement?

>
> well, the status of the GNOME 2 port is, right now, a bit uncertain,
> since I'm not very sure which direction to follow. That is, there are
> some parts that need a big refactoring process (libgda-server and the
> providers being of those), so I am uncertain on whether to continue the
> port as I've been doing (porting to 2.0 what we've got right now, with
> some additions/changes), or try to have the stable branch compile for
> both GNOME 1.x and 2.x [1], and start a refactoring of everything on the
> HEAD branch.
> I've even thought of refactoring a bit the IDL to add support for the
> CORBA transaction service.
>
> So, for the time being, please continue with the stable branch only, and
> don't worry about GNOME 2.
>

Thanks for the update.

mike