Re: [gnome-db] Future characteristic

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:54 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> > 
> > I agree, I think that libgnomedb 'must' have a rich
> > set of widgets, to use it in forms or as part of an
> > application: the improviments in libmeargeant will be
> > use full, but I think is more intuitive for the
> > developer to have that widgets (I did'nt know that
> > improviments already exist in libmeargeant) in
> > libgnomedb; any extention 'must' be go back to
> > libgnomedb and may the limeargeant use for other
> > spacific items.
> > 
> > I'm wrong? what is the object to have a separated
> > library? I allways think that Meargeant was just an
> > application to 'use' the libgnomedb.
> > 
> 
> Yes, mergeant started as an application using libgda and libgnomedb
> (only libgda existed when I started it). Then I realized I needed a
> data dictionnary and did not want to put that into libgnomedb because
> I was not sure how long it would take to have it working and also
> because I was not sure everyone wanted it.
> 
> So I started my own libmergeant library, which is now useable (I use
> it at work to write some simple santdalone apps to manage data in some
> databases we have). Libmergeant is using both libgda and libgnomedb
> (though not much of libgnomedb).
> 
> Beware that libmergeant _requires_ and maintains a data dictionnary to
> work which is an expensive job in term of memory usage and startup
> times (not that much but still more than without the dictionnary); of
> course some improvements could still be brought to it!
> 
> The plans have been to merge back libmergeant into libgnomedb at some
> point if that pleases everyone. Anyway, for this to happen tho things
> are required;
> - I need to make some code cleanups in libmergeant
> - we need to have a detailled merging plan (I think some libgnomedb's
> widgets will need to be replaced by some of libmergeant).
> 
yes, what about setting the 1.2 -> 1.4 time frame for doing the merge?

Since you know the libmergeant code, could you provide an overview of
the things that could be put in libgda/libgnomedb? Once we have that, we
can start planning for doing it for 1.4 (or 2.0 if we do such a big
change as to incorporate all the libmergeant features).
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>