Re: [gnome-db] libgda2, creating tables



Vivien Malerba wrote:
> On 9/13/06, Neil Williams <linux codehelp co uk> wrote:
>> I'm getting errors of:
>>     gda_server_provider_create_table: assertion `CLASS
>> (provider)->create_table != NULL' failed
> 
> The error you get is because the database adaptator (provider) that
> you use does support table creation. Table creation, deletion, ... has
> been added (and is implemented by the Postgres, MySQL and SQLite
> providers with others to follow) to libgda version >= 1.9.103 or CVS
> version (this version is a beta version of the next stable versions).
> 
> I suggest that you use this version and not the current and obsolete
> version.

Sorry, completely unrealistic. I'm not willing to use unpackaged and
AFAICT unreliable code.

I've tried chasing and backporting unstable/CVS versions of libraries
with another package and it really is not fun. I'm not going down that
road again - I've already seen the number of API changes from the
current Debian package to the unstable version and it just isn't worth
the effort. The idea of porting unstable code from unreleased CVS into
what is otherwise a stable library is plain daft. I wanted to release
this module and package it for Debian within two weeks. It'll now wait
until there is a compatible and *STABLE* libgda package in Debian -
however long that takes.

When gnome-db is ready to release a new stable package with a stable
API, I'll revisit this section of my library. There are lots of other
things to do whilst libgda gets it together. It would be really good if
the libgda API was backwards compatible and there were more stable
releases. Users really don't like trusting personal/financial data to
unstable code and the lack of a stable API causes no end of problems for
packages wanting to link to updated versions of libgda.

I'll just go back to "lurking" mode. Shame though, it was looking good
until this happened.

-- 

Neil Williams
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