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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Re: KDEDB (Re: Oracle support in kdedb)
From:       Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-03-29 19:18:19
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:00:25PM +0100, Mike Richardson wrote:
> On Thursday 29 March 2001 16:31, David Faure wrote:
> > Ok, it seems I misunderstood.
> >
> > >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.
> >
> 
> Maybe someone pay a visit to TT with a few big blokes with those spikey 
> baseball bats and extract some information :-)

There are qt3 snapshots on ftp.trolltech.com as well as on
rsync.trolltech.com::qt .
 
> I think there are two separate issues here.
> 
> Firstly, the actual database interface; should TT provide a set of classes 
> that do the Right Thing(TM) then I would expect that they would be what we 
> should use - presumably they will maintain them.
> 
> Secondly, there is the issue of the higher level interface, meaning stuff 
> like setting up and storing database configurations (eg, name X maps to 
> server S, user U, password P, etc). My guess would be that TT aren't so 
> likely to do so much here, and anyway, you'd want to make the dialogs and 
> such KDE compatible.

The qt stuff goes quite far. They have a brilliant qt designer integration
including widgets for graphical browsing/editing!
 
> So I think that KDE-DB isn't going to go away, though the extact plugins 
> might change a lot.

It sounds wrong to me to provide two different database access technologies
to the developers (it's just confusing) . I'm favour of the Qt one. 
(even if the price is to wait a bit until Qt3 arrives)

(that being just my personal humble opinion :)

Bye,
 Simon
 

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