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

[Dru <andru treshna com>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 10:03 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>
> > > > -- 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.
> >
> > That thing that I am trying to explain is that if you actually
> > attempt to implement the functionality in the 2-point list, 
> > and try to use it in a distributed, multi-user application,
> > you would discover, sooner or later, that you need additional
> > functionality, above and beyond what libgda does today.  However,
> > after implementing all of these whiz-bang, multi-user, distributed
> > features, you would still have a 2-point sytem: something that
> > copies data between objects and other sources.  We do not yet have 
> > this 2-point sytem.
>
> the multi user aspects are usually very well covered by powerful RDBMS,
> there's no need to implement all of that on the client side of things,
> but just to get the client integrate in that multi user environment.
>
> And if you need multi user environments for data sources that dont
> implement, there are very "easy" solutions, some of which are planned
> for future libgda releases, like doing a CORBA provider, or a SOAP
> provider that allows access to data sources in remote machines.

Problems with mutli-user is the caches in datasets, middleware and what 
exists in the gui.  and i really dont like corba or soap but thats just me.