Re: [gnome-db] libgnomeoffice

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 19:52, malerba gnome-db org wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 12:55, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >> Hi Vivien (and all)
> >>
> >> There are discussions going on on the gnome-office-list gnome org, since
> >> the time has come to start sharing code between all GNOME Office apps.
> >>
> >> The code to be shared is in the gnome-office module in CVS, and what
> >> there is there is a plugin system, which is the one that is going to be
> >> used by all GO apps.
> >>
> >> So, Vivien, since Mergeant has plugins, take into account that all
> >> plugins should be converted to the libgnomeoffice plugin system.
> >>
> 
> There is a plugin system which provides capabilities to handle special
> data types, for example for the Postgres's CIDR data type, etc. It is
> built on the GModules. It could easily be converted to any other format.
> 
ok. Is that plugin system the one in mergeant? or there is a new one in
libmergeant?

> > hmm, just came to my mind, what about providing the data dictionary as a
> > plugin to the GO plugin system? That way, there will be no need to have
> > a libmergeant, just a plugin, provided by mergeant, which is installed
> > in the system, and available to all GO apps without any extra library.
> >
> 
> There is not _one_ dictionnary, but one for each data source, and even one
> for each usage of a data source. I need to learn more about the GO plugin
> system to see what could be done. Do you have an URL to get some
> information?
> 
well, the dictionary plugin would be generic, to be used for each data
source independently. There is no need to have a plugin for each data
source.

So, with the GO plugin system, we just need to define a
DatabaseDictionary service, which contains all the functions needed to
interact with the dictionary. And then, we just need to have a plugin
that implements that service.

There are no docs for libgnomeoffice yet, sorry :-( But there's the
code, which should be easy to understand. It is in the gnome-office CVS
module.

Any questions you have on it, please tell me.

cheers