Re: [gnome-db] Oracle Provider and How to Contribute

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

Hi

I'm interested in the Oracle provider. I've been working on *NIX/Oracle
for the last six years and have experience with OCI, GNOME and C. Where
do I start/who do I coordinate with ?

I'm chiefly interested in having an open-source tool on GNOME with
features similar to PL/SQL Developer and TORA on Linux. This roughly
means:

1. DB explorer and editor - I'd like to view, create a modify all DB
entries from the GUI, e.g. table-spaces, data files, users, tables,
indexes, packages and procedures, triggers, etc. Viewing, of course,
includes structure as well as content.
2. Nice syntax highlighted editor for SQL and PL/SQL.

My time is pretty limited and available in short spurts mostly, plus I'm
already involved in other projects - any ideas on how to best utilize it
?

Thanks in advance.

Rgds,
Biswa.

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 05:41, gnome-db-list-admin gnome org wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 00:50, Steve Fosdick wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently discovered mergeant and it's supporting libraries and so far
> > I'm impressed.  I am keen to get it working with Oracle, the database we
> > use at work, partly because it is so much better than SQL*Worksheet -
> > faster as well as having extra functionailty.
> 
> > So, I've got a couple of bug reports logged against the oracle gda
> > provider and have started to do some initial work to track down the one
> > that is concerned with describing tables.
> >
> yes, the problem is that I haven't been able to have an oracle
> installation for a long time now, and apart from Tim's initial work on
> the GNOME 2 port of the oracle provider, nobody has really been
> maintainting the oracle provider. That's why it is a bit out of date,
> although it basically works.
> 
> So, any work you put on it would be really appreciated.
> 
> > My next question then is what is the best way to contribute without
> > stepping on anyone else's toes?
> >
> the best thing is to say what you intend to work on here on this list,
> so that other developers know about it. For the oracle provider, as I
> said, you won't step on anyone else's toes, since nobody is maintaining
> it.
> 
> cheers
> 
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