Re: [gnome-db] Proposals for mergeant

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 14:18, Adam Williams wrote:
> > >> > 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)
> > >> On a related issue, what are the general plans for adding scripting
> > >> support to mergeant?
> > > the plan is to use the same scripting implementation than the rest of
> > > GNOME Office, which is what you can find in the gnome-office module in
> > > GNOME CVS. As you can see from that code, it is still unfinished, since
> > > we still have to make all GNOME Office apps agree on that.
> > Ah, this is interesting. Haven't heard of that yet.
> 
> Niether have I,  is there any URLs about this?
>
no, this was mainly discussed in the gnome-office-list. We haven't yet
agreed on the common plugin system for all applications, on which the
scripting stuff depends. That's why there hasn't been any
release/announcement.

>  One of the gripes I hear
> most at our User Group meetings is the lack of any equivalent to
> VBS/VBA, no way to automate moving data between applications.  Since
> GNOME Basic was declared dead I wasn't aware of any potential
> equivalent.
> 
right

> I assume "GNOME Office apps" doesn't include Open Office?
> 
no, GNOME Office 1.0 was Gnumeric, AbiWord and GNOME-DB. For future
versions, other apps might be included. This is all discussed in the GO
list.

cheers