Re: [gnome-db] Plugins pkg-config files

["Vivien Malerba" <vmalerba gmail com>]

On 3/25/07, Gustavo R. Montesino <grmontesino gmail com> wrote:
> Em Sáb, 2007-03-24 às 21:48 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) escreveu:
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> > Gustavo R. Montesino wrote:
> > > Just wondering... Are the plugin .pc files added in 2.99.6 really
> > > useful? AFAICT it doesn't make sense to link something against a libgda
> > > plugin.
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> > The reasoning for this, as stated in the bug requesting this feature[1],
> > is to be able to detect that a specific plugin is actually available.
> > This is the technique used by cairo, for example.
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> > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353404
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> I've looked the bug report, and it doesn't make much sense to me...
> Shouldn't a well designed libgda application be database-agnostic?

It should, but nothing prevents someone to write an application
targetting a specific provider (using some special SQL, etc) or a list
of providers, and this makes it possible. It's just a feature, you
don't have to use it.

Regards,

Vivien