Re: Becoming part of Gnome Office

[Andrew Coulam <aigiskos yahoo com>]

Does Mergeant/Gnome-DB offer some sort of plug-in
system?  That is, could gmdb provide plug-ins for
Mergeant that implement these Access specific
features?  People who want to work with the .mdb
format would be happy, whereas MySQL et al. people
could simply not plug in those features.

Chreers.

--- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 21:11, Brian Bruns wrote:
> > On 30 Dec 2002, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 19:18, Martin Sevior
> wrote:
> > > > Could libgda be extended to to include gmdb as
> a data source? That way all 
> > > > the other gnome-office applications would have
> access to *.mbd files. This 
> > > > could significantly enhance the ability of
> Gnome-office to inter-operate 
> > > > with MS Office particularly in Business
> settings which make extensive use 
> > > > of MS Access. I see this as a significant
> advance where everyone wins.
> > > > 
> > > > gmdb gains more users, libgda gains more
> users, AbiWord and Gnumeric gain 
> > > > more users.
> > > > 
> > > yes, that's the plan, there is a libgda provider
> that uses libmdb to
> > > access MS access files. So far, it is able to
> read the tables in the
> > > database and little more, but I'm working on it.
> Apart from that, the
> > > big thing missing is the write support, which is
> in the TODO list for
> > > libmdb.
> > 
> > Actually, I'm working on 'update in place' writes
> as we speak, which are 
> > the easiest cause we don't touch allocation or
> indexes for those, and it 
> > gives us a base to build from, so it's coming.
> Anyway, my time is limited 
> > and these are the areas I'm trying to work on.  
> > 
> cool, that sounds great!
> 
> > > That is, all libgda apps will have access to MS
> Access files via the
> > > libgda provider that uses libmdb (part of
> mdb-tools). That's why I was
> > > talking about gnome-db being a competitor for
> gmdb, since it will also
> > > support access to MS Access files.
> > 
> > But where my point comes in, is that Access is a
> bit different from say, 
> > mysql or postgres or the big databases, in that it
> is a development tool 
> > and runtime as well as a simple database and these
> are the things that 
> > gmdb (I guess I need a more catchy sounding name
> eh?) will be geared 
> > towards.  So Gnome-DB (correct me if I'm wrong)
> will probably never handle 
> > something so specific to one database and out of
> the realm of traditional 
> > databases.
> > 
> > I imagine the SQL window and couple other
> functions will be subsumed by 
> > the libgda provider, but then we'll also have
> recovery tools for corrupt 
> > databases and some other really neat things
> bundled in.
> > 
> yes, that sort of tools are too access-specific,
> which I don't think
> we'll be providing in gnome-db.
> 
> cheers
> 
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