RE: [gnome-db] unixODBC Driver Manager now supported with DB2Universal Database

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:30, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> I have entered a bug in bugzilla for ODBC Data Sources configuration support
> in Mergeant.
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100520
> 
> Any comments?
>
yes, the thing is how we want to do that. That is, do we add specific
code to the data source manager in libgnomedb to detect when the
provider is the ODBC one (or any other one) and load the widget, or do
we want a more generic way, that we can use for any provider?

Since having mergeant allow the configuration of ODBC data sources is a
very nice addition, let's come to a solution as soon as possible :-)

Adding the specific code for loading the ODBC widget might be the
shortest path, since it's just a matter of adding a few lines of code to
load the widget.

But this solution will mean that we'll have to do the same for all
providers, that is, add an administration widget for each provider, and,
when a third party comes with a separately distributed provider, they
don't have a way to add their admin widget to mergeant.

So, this means we need a more generic solution, but, for the time being,
I would vote for having the special case for ODBC, and, when we come to
the best generic solution, replace the special case with whatever we
decide.

Any more comments?

cheers