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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Subject: Re: New koffice project - KDatabase
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-04-20 18:01:03
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Just to compensate for people saying that a sql database is what you
should do; I think this is very good for KOffice; no matter what the 
backend is!  Thanx for joining the team :)

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 12:03:33PM -0400, Chris Machemer wrote:
> You could very well be right.  Perhaps people won't be interested in it.  But 
> I'm willing to invest some time into it and see.  If it doesn't become 
> popular, at least I've learned a lot about databases and KDE, and perhaps I 
> could then contribute to another project.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 08:21 am, Daniel Naber wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 January 1970 01:00, Chris Machemer wrote:
> > > No.  It'll have its own file format, like Access.
> >
> > Frankly, I don't think that's a good idea. Why? Because it's difficult to
> > get the backend right, and several good backends are already available.
> > You probably think that a relational database system is overkill for a
> > desktop user, but there's no need for a running e.g. MySQL in the
> > background. Since v4.0 MySQL offers a lightweight lib that you can link to
> > and access the database via an API (no server running in the background).
> > If that's not lightweight enough there are several alternatives like
> > Gigabase.
-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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