Re: [gnome-db] User space providers

[Danilo Schoeneberg <dj starfire-programming net>]

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:10, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:14, Danilo Schoeneberg wrote:
> > Hi Crew,
> > 
> > 
> > As Rodrigo suggested, it would be a good idea to integrate the gnomedb
> > configuration with the gnome-control-center. I've completed the basic
> > skeleton and the UI of an appropriate capplet. While doing so the idea
> > of user space providers sprang to mind.
> > 
> hmm, what's wrong with the gnome-database-properties applet in
> libgnomedb? It is a control center applet, and shows up in the Desktop
> Preferences menu.

Well for me there's only one thing wrong with it - it isn't there
*shrug*

> > The idea of allowing user space providers is to enable users (other than
> > the administrator) to install additional database providers outside
> > libgda's provider directory. This would allow user to install for
> > instance a tuned/optimized version of an existing provider. I already
> > know what would have to be done to libgda to enable that, but I didn't
> > want to do such a heavy modification without some sort of consent from
> > the gang.
> > 
> sounds good, and it's not really a huge modification. You just need to
> change libgda/gda-config.c to look for an extra directory, in the user's
> home, and look for providers there. As you'll see after looking at the
> code, the modifications needed are quite small. You just have to add a
> list of directories to search for, and repeat the code there is right
> now for searching in $prefix/lib/libgda/providers, for each directory.
> 
> We could also take advantage of this to have a way for sysadmins to
> specify other directories to search for providers. There could be an
> entry in the system-wide config file that can be uses to specify those
> extra directories.

I wouldn't want to set extra directories, i thought more in terms of
incorporating the filenames into the config file. I'll do a prototype
and show it around to explain what i mean

> > Another question concerns the capplet directly. Altho it theoretically
> > uses only libgda functions, would it be more appropriate to enclose it
> > in libgnomedb or should it go as an optional component into the libgda
> > respository. 
> > 
> as there is one already in libgnomedb, yeah, it should be there :-)
> 
> cheers
>