Re: [gnome-db] Re: new release

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 08:57, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:43:42AM +0100, Fernando Martins wrote:
> > Hi Vivien,
> > > > * have gnome-office applications access mergeant's engine, which could
> > > > be much more powerful than just using libgda/libgnomedb (what they do
> > > > right now, mainly only libgda).
> > >
> > > That's the point, yes. I would also like to be able to use mergeant as a
> > > lib from other programs (C or whatever if we can make bonobo interfaces
> > > with it).
> > >
> > 
> > Let me just note that depending on Bonobo makes it more difficult to have
> > Mergeant running on Windows, which I hope to see one day. So far not even
> > libgda is doing the job but it's reasonable to expect it.
> > 
> > Dia has an option like -disable-bonobo to make it compile on Windows. It
> > might be worth to consider it.
> 
> Although I don't use Windows, I would like to see a version of
> libgda/libgnomedb/mergeant running on Windows. So I think we could add
> compilation flags to remove parts that are difficult to port to Windows.
> What I don't want is to introduce limitations on the Unix version
> because there are some problems with Windows.
> 
> Are you working on a Windows port?
> 
if so, Fernando, please have a look at libgda, which just needs a few
bits to run on windows (it compiles but it generates .so instead of .dll
for the providers, and so, when opening them, it fails, since it expects
a .dll). If you could put some work on this, that would be really great.

cheers