From kde-core-devel  Sun Sep 21 22:23:44 2003
From: Mathieu Chouinard <mchoui () e-c ! qc ! ca>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:23:44 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=106422802217694

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[Guillaume Laurent reply]:
> On Sunday 21 September 2003 23:39, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> > Now, your position is that there is no such app to be written. I gave a
> > few examples, Andras mentioned one. Those apps do exist.
>
> My position is that DBs are, more frequently than not, used as the wrong
> solution to a problem, and are inherently much more complex and less
> reliable than simpler solutions. I don't disagree that apps needing a DB
> can be written, I do disagree that they are as common as you seem to think.
>
> > Costs almost nothing. It's tiny. It's written. It's 1200 lines. How buggy
> > can it be? ;-)
>
> You tell me :-). How well tested is it ?
>
> > Benefits: you say none. I say some.
>
> No, I agree there are benefits. What I'm worried about are the downsides,
> even more so since you seem to be overly confident on the issue, and
> advocated the use of DBs in applications where they really didn't belong.
> Two sure signs of the "I've got a new toy I absolutely must play
> with"-syndrome. No offense meant, but you do trigger a few alarm bells
> here.
the thing is that KDE is also a framework we use to develop application ... 
and I think a standardized way to access DB (not just relational one but all 
kind) would be benificial for KDE, even gnome got libgda, windows got ODBC 
(or whatever is called know). 
Mathieu
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