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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What's the deal with kdedb?
From:       Alessandro Praduroux <pradu () thekompany ! com>
Date:       2001-05-16 8:17:46
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There are 2 things that must be considered IMHO

1 - KDEDB core libraries (kdbcore and kdbui)
2 - apps in kde using the actual KDEDB libraries

For the libs, probably the best bet is using the QT ones, provided that they 
have the same feature list ( one thing that comes to mind is the meta 
information about the database, that is in kdedb but I dunno if it's in QT)

the apps (actually only the ioslave, IIRC, and a small test app that is in 
kdenonbeta) can be rewritten if we go for the qt library, there's not a big 
installed base for now.

but Alex is right, NOW is the moment to decide to keep kdedb or to drop it 
and wait for QT3/KDE3.

One thing that must be considered in this discussion is that I have a very 
limited time now, and if we want to keep KDEDB we must find a new mantainer 
for it, 'cause if we put it in KDE2.2, we will get bug reports from 
programmers and someone must take care of it. I can help of course, but I 
don't think I can do it 'full time' now.

Opinions?

Il 20:12, marted́ 15 Maggio 2001, Shawn Gordon ha scritto:
> At 05:08 PM 5/15/2001, you wrote:
> >On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:12:06PM +0200, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > > Guillaume is right. The open source edition of Qt will continue to be
> > > feature-wise identical with the Qt Enterprise Edition on Unix/X11, that
> > > is including the database module.
> >
> >Sooooooo..
> >
> >what will happen to kdedb in kdelibs?
> >
> >- alex
>
> no one has done an exhaustive comparison yet, but there are features of
> KDEDB that qdb doesn't and probably won't have, like the kio_slave for
> Konqueror.  Until someone does a comparison it's hard to decide what will
> go where.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shawn Gordon
> President
> theKompany.com
> www.thekompany.com
> 949-713-3276

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