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

["Vivien" <malerba gnome-db org>]

> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:32 +0100, Vivien wrote:
>> > I think the long term plan would be to have only one library for all.
>> >
>>
>> One for all the UI stuff, yes; keeping libgda small and efficient for
>> non
>> UI applications is IMO a plus.
>>
> yes, right, libgda should be kept small, as it is today. But for the UI,
> not now, but at a later time (post mergeant-1.0?) we should think about
> merging the two libraries. There could be the simple cases, as libgnomed
> is now, and, apart from that, a data dictionary widget(s), which is what
> is in mergeant now. I'm not saying to remove one or the other, but to
> merge them in one UI library.
>
> In fact, what is preventing us from doing that now, for libgnomedb 1.2?
> We could just merge the current libmergeant into libgnomedb, would that
> be ok at this point?
>

I agree with having only one UI library in the future, it's going to be
easier for all the developpers.

Libgnomedb is quite stable and libmergeant is not yet stable (still some
bugs and the API is still changing often), so I think it's better if we
wait for a rather stable version of libmergeant before we merge the two
libraries.

I'm at the moment writing a complete application with libmergeant which
allows me to fast-debug it and make it more useable.

Cheers,

Vivien