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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    KDEDB (Re: Oracle support in kdedb)
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-29 15:14:49
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On Wednesday 28 March 2001 23:49, Dan Williams wrote:
> I was just starting to look at doing a DB/2 module myself.  I have it 
> installed on my system.
> 
> I agree that having support for DB/2 & Oracle would be a big plus.
> 
> On Wednesday 28 March 2001 08:15 am, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> > If anyone is interested, a DB2 module would also be very cool.  I've got a
> > copy of DB2 here, but we haven't had a chance to do anything.  I think
> > having 2 or 3 of these high end commercial databases accessible via
> > konqueror and KDE-DB would be totally cool.

Hmm, I think that before anyone spends too much time writing
kdedb plugins, it would be a good idea to reach a decision about kdedb.

This discussion has started privately, but should rather be held here IMHO.

On one hand, Qt 3 is arriving with DB support.
On the other hand, we have kdedb now, but the author (Alessandro),
and theKompany in general, seem to indicate that they don't intend
to maintain it in the future.

In the light of this... is it really wise to keep kdedb at all ?
If the need for DB support is urgent, then of course "what we have now"
is better than "whatever will come in the future" (from Qt).
But OTOH if this can wait a little bit, we can perhaps drop kdedb completely
and go for Qt3's DB support, which is guaranteed to be maintained.

Note: I don't know the technical merits and flaws of any implementation,
kdedb nor Qt. If anyone knows, it would be a good input to the discussion.
In any case, the issue of "who's going to maintain it" remains IMHO.

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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