Re: [gnome-db] Re: dwi and libgda

[linas linas org (Linas Vepstas)]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:46:24PM -0500, Derek Neighbors was heard to remark:
> > Here's why I went off to do my own:
> > 
> > -- I couldn't understand how bond worked.  It wasn't documented,
> >    and reading the code didn't help.   I'm impatient; if I can't figure
> >    it out in a day or two, I skip.
> > 
> > -- The examples didn't work out of the box, and the instructions for
> >    making them work were out of date.  (although DWI probably suffers
> >    from the same problem).
> > 
> > At the time, I was under a time crunch, so after much agonizing &
> > hand-wringing, going my own way seemed best & easiest.
> 
> Any reason you didnt just write a db provider for SashXB?
>  (http://www.sashxb.org)

Hmm.  in hindsight:
-- I forgot about this/didn't consider it.
-- I needed to interface to existing gnome/C programs
-- didn't want to use other languages (due to above)
-- dwi requires 'zero' programming; its a description language unto
   itself: its 'just' xml.  It 'just' describes how to link sql table
   fields to widgets.

--linas


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