Re: Database for gnome

["Gregory A. Kirkendall" <Greg kirkendallse com>]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> > The problem with all database interfaces is that none of them
> > standardize the protocol going over the wire. When I began reading up on
> > ODBC, that was a shocking revelation: it only defines entry points in a
> > (shared) library.
>
> Ok.
>
> Well, then I would preffer if the Database front end would be designed
> to plug directly into the free databases, this probably includes
> Postgress.
>
> We can leave the task of talking to other databases to contributors.
> But we should target the free code
>
> best wishes,
> miguel.
>
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  The disadvantage of this approch is that *every* database application will
have to be re-implemented for each free database.    There are several
database access libraries that are GNU licensed so licensing should not be a
problem.

Greg