Re: Database for gnome

[Gianluca Montecchi <gm518464 silab dsi unimi it>]

On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, 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
> 


Perhaps it is the better way.

Gianluca

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