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Subject:    Fwd: Re: KDEDB (Re: Oracle support in kdedb)
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-29 15:31:46
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Ok, it seems I misunderstood.

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Subject: Re: KDEDB (Re: Oracle support in kdedb)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:17:06 -0800
From: Shawn Gordon <shawn@thekompany.com>
To: David Faure <david@mandrakesoft.com>

At 07:14 AM 3/29/2001, you wrote:
>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.

Sorry if the wrong impression was given.  Pradu just doesn't have time 
right now, we fully intend to spend time on it, but I've got Pradu backed 
up on other things.  We have also talked with TrollTech about the DB 
support in Qt 3, and it is not clear that it will replace KDEDB at this stage.

>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.

We will still maintain it, and I'm hoping to get some details from 
Trolltech soon so we can figure this all out exactly, but in the mean time 
kde-db is the only game in town.

Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276

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