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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Re: How to distribute kdedb plugins
From:       Henrik Johnson <hpj () globecom ! net>
Date:       2001-03-28 21:14:37
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Mandrake has Oracle support for PHP included in an RPM, I wonder why this 
would be much different? You still need to get Oracle and install that to 
use it though (Even if you just want the client you have to download the 
whole 500MB caboodle), compared to the kdelibs is tiny.

/Henrik Johnson
GlobeCom AB

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 3/28/01, 8:19:55 PM, George Staikos <staikos@kde.org> wrote regarding 
Fwd: Re: How to distribute kdedb plugins:


> This somehow didn't appear on the list when I sent it 3 hours ago.

> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: Re: How to distribute kdedb plugins
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:14:30 -0500
> From: George Staikos <staikos@kde.org>
> To: kde-core-devel@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de


> On Wednesday 28 March 2001 09:07, Alessandro Praduroux wrote:
> > Il 15:58, mercoledì 28 marzo 2001, George Staikos ha scritto:
> > >   I'm really wondering how kdedb plugins will be distributed.  I think
> > > it's crazy to have kdelibs depend on various databases now too.  Yet some
> > > people will want it to work with their database.   Maybe does it make
> > > sense to ship the actual source for the plugins and a Makefile in the
> > > binary packages and allow the user to generate plugins as needed?  I've
> > > seen something like this done before but I can't remember where now.  It
> > > really wouldn't be fun to have to download kdelibs source after
> > > installing a binary kdelibs packages just so you can compile a kdedb
> > > plugin.
> >
> > distibution-wise, a plugin can be a separate module.
> > So, you will distribute:
> >
> > kdelibs v2.2 (including kde-db)
> > kde-db-mysql (the mysql plugin)
> > kde-db-posgres ...
> >
> > This is what actual distros do, I think...

>    And the distros are going to install Oracle, DB2, Informix, etc and 
link
> KDE against them?  Somehow I doubt that....  It's much better if a user 
can
> easily build these without downloading all of kdelibs source.

> --

> George Staikos

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> --

> George Staikos

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