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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDEDB (Re: Oracle support in kdedb)
From:       Henrik Johnson <hpj () globecom ! net>
Date:       2001-03-29 21:38:59
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> On Thursday 29 March 2001 17:14, David Faure 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.
> >

> That's not completely true. ATM I have little time to do it, but I don't 
want
> to drop it at all.
> The question then should be the following:
> will the forthcoming qt3 database library cover all the needs we have? 
Maybe
> we can drop the library, but what about the ioslave and the kcontrol 
modules?
> they can (and will, if we choose to rely on qt3 sql access) be ported to 
the
> new architecture.

> Can someone knowing what qt3 db library will look like tell us something
> about it?

I've downloaded it and had a look at it and it seems like the Qt DB 
interface is a subset of KDE DB. You have no builtin functionality to 
browse databases and/or modify/create database objects in Qt SQL. The way 
I see it the KDE DB would fit nicely as a superset of Qt SQL which add 
this functionality from the basic prepare/execute/fetch framework that 
seems to be provided by Qt SQL. This is just from a quick browse of the 
headerfiles and I'm not completely sure.

/Henrik Johnson
GlobeCom AB

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