Re: [gnome-db] post-release and 1.0 plans

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:54, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
> >- sybase provider (Holger already did a lot about this)
> >- ODBC provider (hopefully Dan will be working on porting it from the
> >old architecture)
> 
> Does the current ODBC provider not work?
> 
it hasn't been ported from the 0.2.x versions, which used to work pretty
well

> >- read-only connections -> this is very important for GNOME Office apps.
> >- don't use deprecated GTK stuff, such as GtkCList, etc
> >- full documentation. API docs are in good shape, although missing some
> >stuff, but we really need a joe user's guide.
> >- grant/revoke API
> >Apart from that, which I think should be mandatory for a 1.0 release,
> >nice things that I'd really like to have is:
> >- report engine. Hopefully Santi will come up to something working soon
> >- Berkeley DB provider
> >- XBase provider
> 
> An XBase provider (even an ODBC driver) would be wonderful for us.
>
there is a starting codebase in CVS HEAD for a xbase provider. I didn't
get too far away though.

>   Then
> OpenLDAP would be able to query the GoldMine database on behalf of user's mail
> clients,  which would make me very popular.  Is the LDAP GDA provider currently
> maintained?
> 
German (in CC) did some work on it, but never got it to CVS. Maybe he
can enlighten us about the current situation.

cheers