From kde-devel  Wed Jun 23 02:08:21 1999
From: Lotzi Boloni <boloni () cs ! purdue ! edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:08:21 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Two questions: starter prog, and ODBC
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Peter Harvey wrote:

> >
> > 2. There was a discussion about a general interface to ODBC some time
ago
> > - I need a generic datasource, so this would come in handy - is there any
> > usable code I might try to tweak?
> >
> 
> There are a couple of us working on getting ODBC into KDE (based upon iODBC
> and unixODBC). For example; I will be plugging the unixODBC ODBCConfig into
> kcontrol and also bring in the unixODBC DataManager. My work has been a bit
> hampered by the flury of changes that are currently being made in KDE but
> you should expect to see it sometime over the coming weeks.
> 
> Is your app to be a KDE app? I ask because I am looking for an app to set an
> example for others to use ODBC.

   Yes (if it ever grows up). It is sort of inspired by "The Brain" and/or
"Everything". I don't want to make any commitment yet, I am just trying to
evaluate how difficult it would be. 

         Lotzi