Re: [gnome-db] [mergeant] Status ?

[Michał 'pingu' Lachowicz <MLachowicz poczta onet pl>]

Vivien wrote:

> > Next number will be 1.0.0 :-)
>
> There is still quite a lot of work before 1.0.0!

Is there a roadmap ?
I found http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-db-list/2003-June/msg00067.html
but can't understand purpose of libmergeant vs. libgnomedb

> When first used on a data-source, libmergeant creates its dictionnary from
> the DBMS, and then can store it to an XML file (which can be used in
> subsequent connections to that data-source).

file with name of tables, attributes, etc. ?
where are this files ? (~/.gconf/apps/libgda/Datasources/) ?
if so, file ~/.libgda/config shouldn't be in .gconf dir ?

> [...]
> > is fresh version in the cvs.gnome repository ?
>
> No, but I'll commit the version I've been working on for some time (I did
> not use gnome's CVS because it was not cnvenient and because I've been the
> only developer on libmergeant so far).
Understood

> > > and has no interesting feature at the moment.
> >
> > How can i start to change it ?
>
>
> -> Do a checkout of the libmergeant module _only_ to build the doc (which
> is not yet present in the mergeant module).

which branch ?
in HEAD intresting is only 'mgconf.html'

> -> Do a checkout of the mergeant module and start working in the frontend/
> dir (not src/ since it is for the old version).

v.0.50.0 ?

>  [..advice..]
> dictionnary each time the user selects a data-source (use the
> extra/mg-db-browser.c file as an example).
>
> Mergeant should also be run with either the name of a data source or the
> name of a XML dictionnary to load.
should == can ?

> You can use the MgSelector object to provide a treeview like display of
> some objects of the dictionnary (tables, etc).

> If you need some info, please ask.
I will :-)


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