Re: [gtk-list] Re: GNOME Database kit

[Walt Pohl <pohl math washington edu>]

I think ODBC drivers are supposed to be hard to write.  There's also a
data-base interface in the CORBA spec, so it probably makes sense to have
the higher layer of abstraction, so that you can support both.

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Johannes Keukelaar wrote:

> First of all, a database front-end is definitely an application that GNOME 
> needs. However...
> 
> //Database cursor abstraction layer which currently works only for ODBC.
> //
> //Next steps:
> //
> //Shared lib and dynamic load support in the DB login widget and the DB
> //cursor  layer to allow different DB backends (ODBC, postgres, plain
> //text files).
> 
> Isn't ODBC an abstracted, general interface already? Why add your own layer of abstraction over that? If you support ODBC, and someone wants to use it with some weird database system, all you have to do is write an ODBC driver, which is going to be more generally useful. (Of course, I don't know how simple it is to write an ODBC driver, but that's another story.) Besides, aren't there quite many ODBC drivers out there already? Why add unnecessary complexity?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Johannes.
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> 
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