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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What's the deal with kdedb?
From:       Henrik Johnson <hpj () globecom ! net>
Date:       2001-05-16 8:52:26
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I've been looking at the Qt libraries and AFAIK the Qt libraries doesn't 
support any kind of data manipulation. I could have missed something 
though. Thats why I suggest to back out KDEDB from KDE 2.2 and either:

1. Wait for Qt 3.0 is released.
2. Backport the SQL path of Qt 3 to 2.3. I think this should be pretty 
trivial since it seems pretty separate from the UI of Qt.

After this is done a new hopefully stable API with browsing and 
manipulation functionality can be built on top of the QtSql API which 
when released can be counted on being reasonable stable (The API that 
is). I think it would be a misstake to release an API now that everyone 
(at least on this list) knows will probably be changed pretty soon. I 
could even consider being a maintainer for that new API if no one else 
steps up to the plate. I will have problem with any other DB than MySQL 
and Oracle though since I've never used these, but the DB and these 2 
backends should be no problem.

Just my 2c

/Mauritz
GlobeCom AB

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 5/16/01, 4:16:27 PM, Alessandro Praduroux <pradu@thekompany.com> wrote 
regarding Re: What's the deal with kdedb?:


> 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

> --

> Pradu

> pradu@thekompany.com
> www.thekompany.com

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