Re: [gnome-db] Re: GRAND MASTER PLAN

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 11:13 -0500, Adam Williams wrote:

> > > A complete database toolkit set that allow the easy rapid application 
> > > development of custom db appliations for gnome. Also a collection of 
> > > common business applications like accounting, payroll, inventory etc.
> > Yes. Although I already have a problem with terminology.  
> > "database" is the wrong word, as it implies sql. 
> 
> Or at least "relation database" does, but why quibble. :)  
> 
data source is the term I prefer for that, it just implies a source to
get data from.

> > Its broader than that.  I want two abilities:
> > 1) the ability to take data, be it from sql, an xml file, or 
> >    something ephemeral that came over a socket, and convert
> >    it into a set of C-language objects that can be manipulated
> >    and searched and operated on.  (Note that a possible data
> >    source is a gtkentry widget...
> > 2) the ability to suck data out of the c-language objects, and
> >    shove that data back to an sql database, or to an xml file
> >    or to a socket, or into a gtk widget (for display) or into
> >    an abiword document (for display). 
> 
> This sould VERY much like .Net's ADO.  At least to me.
> 
that's also basically what libgda does. Not the socket stuff, but the
other things are already available via libgda and libgnomedb.

cheers