Re: Feature request: Export to SQL

[Mike Perry <mikepery fscked org>]

Thus spake Jody Goldberg (jody gnome org):

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:12:26PM -0600, Mike Perry wrote:
>
> The gnumeric side would be trivial.  There are lots of examples on
> how to write an export filter.

Excellent. I assume you mean in the src tree itself?

> > I suppose the hardest part would be exporting db functions.. But a nice
> > start would be just to take a snapshot of all values, and export to SQL
> > just so you can run some quick queries.
>
> I suspect that you'd want some sort of gui to configure what goes
> where.  That is less well defined.  Only the text exporter handles
> that currently.  It's not hard, just not as pretty as I'd like.
> The main limitiation is that there is nowhere to store the
> parameters right now for resaving.  That will get addressed in the
> 1.3.x cycle.

So by this you mean there is no way to restore the gnumeric functions
and their arguments once you export to a flat format, like text or
simple SQL?

Can I view the 1.3.x roadmap anywhere? What is the timeframe on it?

-- 
Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
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