From kde-devel  Sat Mar 17 13:10:09 2001
From: Alessandro Praduroux <pradu () thekompany ! com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:10:09 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: kdebase/kcontrol/kdedb still can't be compiled ...
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On Friday 16 March 2001 19:37, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Alessandro Praduroux
>
> > Unless someone (like Michael Koch for instance) can take up the
> > maintenance of kdedb, I'd say leave it out. The library is quite useable
> > now, but lacks a fundamental feature for kde: no private d pointers, and
> > no real work to keep binary compatibility.
>
> kdedb will truly be useful to us as soon as it can operate without a
> database server. I'd be happy to write a file/gdbm/whatever backend if
> I can get some instructions. I looked at the existing backends and there
> wasn't much in the way of clues to how ones should be written.
>
> I'd like to see kdedb stay in kdelibs, as many apps could make use of
> it and it's the closest we've got so far to decent database support.
>
> Rik
>
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If you volunteer to make the classes binary safe, we can activate kdedb in 
kdelibs. In the next week I will try to write a small plugin writing HOWTO 
and will commit it in kdedb/plugins

bye,

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Pradu
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