On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:06 +1000, Noli Sicad wrote: > > I guess you mean support for using any database server via ODBC, instead > > of just PostgreSQL. > > Yes, Aside from it also meant GLOM odbc driver,
Again, Glom uses PostgreSQL, so why would a GlOM ODBC driver be necessary? > so we can read glom > data in scripting languages and then write back the in glom. > > > It could theoretically be possible because we use libgda, and I think > > libgda supports ODBC. But the database server type is not generally > > optional, because it's not of interest to the target users. > > > But the code has some support for SQLite, so ODBC support could also be > > added for special situations if someone wanted to implement and maintain > > it. > > Probably there will be options, what database to use - sqlite or > postgresql in wizard dialog. That's not interesting to the target users. It has a cost in usability and code quality. > ODBC support will be good. MS Access is a good product compare to > Filemaker because of properly supported odbc - read and write, inside > Access and outside. > > I wish I am programmer so I can help in coding and maintain source code. -- [email protected] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ glom-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/glom-devel-list
