On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 04:39 +1300, Andrew Hill wrote: > ok i'm gonna comment cause my projects are very similar to Lina's and > i've run into similar problems to building the nessary tools to rapidly > develop database applications for gnome. > > My approach is very similar but silighty different. > developer builds sql database. (currently only postgresql fully > supported, libgda and mysql very partial support) > glade xml is used to generate bond xml (http://bond.treshna.com) > developer adds in sql statements and attachs code they want to app. > reports can be written in papyrus (http://payrus.treshna.com) > database application front end ready to go and can be deployed. > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:17:18AM +0100, Rodrigo Moya was heard to remark: > > >>http://dwi.sourceforge.net is the object framework I'm planning > >>on using for the future gnucash core engine. > >> > >> > >> > >what are the advantages of this over libgda? > >could you ellaborate more please? > > > > > > This is a different to libgda. dwi and bond are more higher up > interfaces than libgda. libgda requires writting code, and you'll often > find yourself repeating the same tasks over and over again like > inserting and updating sql statements, dealing with default values etc > when you build a large db app. libgda is a lot more powerful in some > ways cause its lower down but if you want to write a huge app in a short > amount of time its quicker and easier to manage your database objects > and forms as one in glade and xml etc. It comes down to what type of > application your writing/best tool for the job. > right. The question is if, as bond/papyrus have tried to do, qof can be changed to use libgda for the basic data access. Then, as I said in a previous mail, we can see what things make sense from it and either put them in libgda/libgnomedb/whatever, or keep them in its current place. If all this conversation is about sharing technology, then, we've got: * libgda -> uniform data access to several data sources * qof stuff -> built on top of libgda That's what I'm saying. Is there any chance of this? cheers _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
