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Subject: Re: Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications
From: "Roberto Alsina" <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date: 2003-09-21 21:50:28
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> On Sunday 21 September 2003 12:48, Roberto Alsina wrote:
>> SQlite is pretty reliable. Besides, saving a daily dump is trivial.
>
> unfortunately i couldn't find docu on their website and i don't have time
> to
> check out yet another interesting set of code from some random CVS server,
> so
> if my thoughts are already covered, ignore them ;-)
>
> first, i think that having an embedded db solution available in KDE would
> be
> great for those apps that would benefit from them. there's obviously some
> varying opinions on which apps those would be, but i don't think anyone
> would
> argue that there aren't any apps. ergo, it's a probably a very nice
> addition
> for KDE 3.3
>
> as for "saving a daily dump" it would be very nice if qsqlite allowed, via
> a
> single method call, dumping the contents of an embedded db to a standard
> (to qsqlite, if nothing else) XML format and with another method call allow
> loading from same. it should work with KIO for this as well...
Hmmm... not XML, but to SQL statements that can later be loaded back.
> and perhaps the maintainers can be persuaded to change the license for GPL
> to
> LGPL so that software licensed under non-GPL-compatible licenses may use
> it.
> that is what the LGPL was designed for =)
Probably 50% of the code is mine, consider that changed.
The other big patches were:
Big important patch from Robert Wittams
Smaller but nice bugfixes by agarfu@sf.net
I am emailing the qsqlite mailing list, but I expect there be no problem.
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