ok - i hear where your coming from - still seems very usefull as it is - immediate almost drop in replacement for developer built access aps which is my minimal requirement anyhow - looking forward to seeing what I can do - Im like you Ive have been pinning for fox pro (in my case in since ms-access/sql server was imposed at a coreperate level) thanks for your time glenn On Monday 19 June 2006 22:25, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jun 19, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Glenn Davy wrote: > > The other thing Im looking at evaluating is gnue - you guys > > familiar with > > this - anything noteworthy I should be aware of in comparison to dabo? > > We looked at GNUe a few years ago before we started Dabo; believe > me, if there was an open source package that did what we needed (or > most of it), we'd have never undertaken this effort! > > To be honest, I haven't looked at it again since then, and I don't > really remember what the roadblocks were. I do recall that it was Gtk- > only, and I don't know if that has changed, but we wanted our apps to > look native on all platforms, and Gtk really looked bad on OS X and > Windows then, so we went with wxPython as our UI toolkit. > > > One thing that got my attention straight away with gnue was the > > presense of > > the application server as standalone server - which i couldnt find an > > equiavlent of with dabo - does dabo serve its bizobjz as a > > service,or does it > > more import the bizobj objects as in a library type fasion? > > The application server design is what I had in mind when I mentioned > that we needed to add sessioning in order for a web interface to Dabo > to be possible. Right now, the business objects are completely "fat- > client": copies are local to each user's machine. We do plan on > adding a more thin-client design with a server-based approach, which > will allow for a more distributed approach and low-end client > machines, but that will not be coming until we get the 1.0 release > out the door. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
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