Re: [gnome-db] New project

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 14:45, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > Hm, sounds like an interesting idea, altho some sort of "sub-gda" would
> > probably save a lot of work, like a meta-provider that "emulates" a DBMS and
> > just calls plugins that take care of the file-i/o into XML files, CSV files
> > or some other sort of interchange formats ( STEP anyone? ;) ). I don't know
> > about the availability, but maybe a little peep into a CSV ODBC driver might
> > help, i think unixODBC has one, don't shoot me if i'm wrong ;-)
> 
> It does, and it has a little SQL parser, etc... packages as a library. 
> They call it "sqi" if I recall correctly, and it is packaged in such a
> way that it can be used in other packages.  At one point in history (I
> don't know if this is true any longer) KDE used it to read/write their
> configuration files.
> 
we also have one (a starting point so far), in libgda/libsql.

> Doesn't the MDB GDA also offer something like this (as MDB files
> themselves can't "offer" SQL support).
> 
yes, mdb-sql, which offers a basic SQL interface to the mdb databases.

> > hm, you might have a point there, altho i must admit at some points too many
> > external dependencies might kill the purpose of the excercise. Anybodz that
> 
> Yes, and I think gnome-db already have lots of those. :)  As a user I'd
> like to see everything stay in the C/*.so vein.
> 
well, we now only depend, for libgda, on glib and libxml. For libgnomedb
and mergeant, dependencies are the same as for every average gnome app.

cheers