Re: [gnome-db] libgda2, creating tables

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 22:36 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> 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.
> 
libgda 1.9.10x are mostly betas for the upcoming 2.0, so using them you
invest in time not needed later to port your application to the new
API :-)

> I've tried chasing and backporting unstable/CVS versions of libraries
> with another package and it really is not fun.
>
you should be able to compile libgda, libgnomedb and mergeant tarballs
on a stable system with no problem. And if you find any problem in doing
so, we'll fix it immediately. That is, there is nothing in
libgda/libgnomedb/mergeant that needs unstable GNOME libraries
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>