From kde-devel  Tue Jan 18 18:20:00 2000
From: "Michael J. Bedy" <mjbedy () mtu ! edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:20:00 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Kash (joining the program in progress.)
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  I am not a database person either. This is why it took me a month to
figure out what's going on :-) I think the documentation could be a little
better organized, but that is a minor complaint. Compared to most free
software it has outstanding documentation.

  I am using 1.24. I have not had any problems (that were not caused by
myself.) I had to change a macro called METHOD to DBMETHOD so that it did
not conflict with QT.

   - Mike


On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Roberto Alsina wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Michael J. Bedy wrote:
> 
> >   It might help to see what I mean if you browse through the readme.html
> > file in the gigabase directory. It is very long, but the Introduction
> > describes what it does.
> 
> Well, some things in the file are a bit hard to get (say, the references
> part?) maybe because I don't know enough DB stuff (or tyhe author's
> english is not so good, it sure beats my russian anyway :-)
> 
> Since we are in the topic of gigabase: what version are you using?
> I am stuck at 1.1.15 because I get strange segfaults when trying to switch
> to 1.1.24. Perhaps we should put together a package that builds gigabase
> as a shared library? Something like kdesupport, probably.
> 
> Gigabase is a really cool thing, and there are many places in KDE where
> KConfig is being abused to do things Gigabase can do much better[1], it
> needs to be known to more people!
> 
> [1] Wherever you use KConfig to store the state of a class that has more
> than, say, 2 or 3 members stored.
> 
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