Re: [gnome-db] Proposals for mergeant

[Andreas Rottmann <a rottmann gmx at>]

mike <mike redtux1 uklinux net> writes:

> As mergeant is not really finished yet, these are my ideas about what I
> would like to see in it, based on my experience with access (love it or
> loathe it, it is pretty much the standard in desktop DB tools in
> windows)
>
[snip]

On a related issue, what are the general plans for adding scripting
support to mergeant? Now that I more-or-less stopped my C++ DB
development efforts[0] and got more involved in coding Scheme (Guile),
I wonder what people here think about Guile-enabling mergeant. There
is already a minimal, but basically working Guile binding for libgda
in my Arch repository[1], as part of the guile-gtk project[2], so
there is a base to build upon. I think adding a scripting language to
mergeant would carry enormous potential (just think of VBA used in
Access and add the power of Scheme to that).

[0] The goal was a tool like mergeant, but using C++, built on a
    self-written software stack genSQL->GDBI->GQL, see
    http://gensql.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html for some
    architectural thoughts.

[1] http://www.rhinosaur.lan/~andy/Software.html#gnuarch

[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gtk/
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