Re: ITP: gnome-db
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, 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). 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. Please go for it! I'd need this package very much. I considered it to package it myself and tried to contact the author but he didn't answer to my e-mail since 1 month :-(. Did you told him your plan? Unfortunately I can't help you packaging it because I didn't start working on it but I hope very much that you get the package soon. I hope that FreeTDS 0.51 will come soon which provides an ODBC driver to MSSQL server and will hopefully work with gnome-db. Kind regard Andreas.
Re: ITP: gnome-db
gnome-db is a a shot at something like the ODBC api's available under windows. I proposed the idea on gnome-list many moons ago, and it was picked up by Michael Lausch, who I believe is the main developer. But why don't they use ODBC on Linux?
Re: ITP: gnome-db
At the time there wasn't strong odbc support for Linux. This was around the summer of 1998, back when GNOME was mystic to build, and there were no Debian packages (Jim Pick was the maintainer at the time, not to insult him :) ). I believe the plan was to use ODBC at some level, but I do not know if that panned out. On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:23:25PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: gnome-db is a a shot at something like the ODBC api's available under windows. I proposed the idea on gnome-list many moons ago, and it was picked up by Michael Lausch, who I believe is the main developer. But why don't they use ODBC on Linux? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ,-. Adam Keys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Adam Keys Development 214.768.5607|Ubercoder ICQ# 11772935 | That rug really brought the room together --The Big Liebowski `-' PGP Key fingerprint 39 B2 B4 E3 29 B4 EA C1 91 9B 77 C9 BC F5 0E F3 Accept No Imitations! Protect your freedom and your privacy. http://www.pgp.com Fight big business insanity. http://www.opendvd.org pgpYSmpcNFTn8.pgp Description: PGP signature
ITP: gnome-db
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
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? Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | pgpuoml4H7kyl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ITP: gnome-db
gnome-db is more intended to be a replacement for MS Access than for the windows registry. gconf is one of the may attempts to create a centralized configuration system for linux. Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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? Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | -- (jacob kuntz)[EMAIL PROTECTED],underworld}.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] (megabite systems) think free speech, not free beer. (gnu foundataion)
Re: ITP: gnome-db
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
Re: ITP: gnome-db
gnome-db is a a shot at something like the ODBC api's available under windows. I proposed the idea on gnome-list many moons ago, and it was picked up by Michael Lausch, who I believe is the main developer. gconf is a shot at something like .ini files, or the windows registry. On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:41:47PM +0200, 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? Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | -- ,-. Adam Keys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Adam Keys Revolutions 214.768.5607 | We've got radicals for every party ICQ# 11772935| Before criticising someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticise them, you will be a mile away and have their shoes. `-' PGP Key fingerprint 39 B2 B4 E3 29 B4 EA C1 91 9B 77 C9 BC F5 0E F3 Accept No Imitations! Protect your freedom and your privacy. http://www.pgp.com Fight big business insanity. http://www.opendvd.org pgpPOKsvjkV6N.pgp Description: PGP signature
