From kde-core-devel  Wed May 16 08:49:11 2001
From: Mike Richardson <mike () quaking ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:49:11 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: What's the deal with kdedb?
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On Wednesday 16 May 2001 15:16, Alessandro Praduroux wrote:
> 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?

I'd say leave it out of 2.2 and then either (a) wait for QT3/KDE3 or (b) do a 
koffice and back-port the DB stuff from QT3; this means that we don't end up 
maintaining a separate set of low-level interface libraries

My vote would be for (b)

Regards
Mike

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