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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 08:39 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:29:43PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya was heard to remark:
> > > > 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.
> 
> Rodrigo,
> 
> I can't beleive you just said that. Let the flame wars resume.
> What DWI/QOF/gnucash currently does, and what gnomedb DOES NOT DO
> is:
> 
I said 'that's what libgda does' in answer to the 2 point-list above.

> -- an object query system. libgda does not.
> -- a uuid system. libgda does not.
> -- an object persistance infrastructure. libgda does not.
> -- a multi-user object caching and cache-coherence system. libgda does not.
> -- a data-set partitioning system. libgda does not.
> 
none of those were in the above 2-point list.