ITP: gnome-db

[Dan White]

gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db) is a framework for creating 
database applications. It provides a common API with pluggable back ends 
to different database sources as well as various specialized widgets for 
handling many database tasks. It's also part of gnome office 
(http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office).

It's licensed under the GPL.
While I'm not a developer, Ed Boraas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has graciously 
volunteered to sponsor this package.

Please let me know if this conflicts with anyone's efforts.
- Dan White

Re: ITP: gnome-db

[Dan White]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
 Previously Dan White wrote:
  gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db) is a framework for creating
  database applications. It provides a common API with pluggable back 
ends
  to different database sources as well as various specialized 
widgets for
  handling many database tasks. It's also part of gnome office
  (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office).

 This sounds a bit like gconf as well, have you compared them?

It appears that gconf and gnome-db have similar functionality, where 
gconf is geared towards providing a plugable backend to the 
configuration API. gnome-db looks to be aiming more toward visual 
database applications. Something like the Borland database explorer.

http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue70/3754.html
Another noticeable improvement coming to GNOME is GConf, a new 
configuration API and backend. This will add the features not provided 
by the simplistic configuration API in GNOME 1.0. It will make it easy 
to plug in different backends for the actual storage, so that you can 
change how and where the data is actually stored without touching the 
applications themselves.

- Dan