Re: [gnome-db] GnomeDbForm

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:26, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> > > Hey, I would be happy to do the same, just tell me if you guys visit
> > > Belgium once ;-)
> > > 
> > maybe in next FOSDEM :-) (I went 2 years ago to Brussels for that, so
> > who knows, maybe I'll go again)
> > 
> 
> Cool, I went only this year, but I will be here for the next one
> (probably to help some guys for a talk/tutorial about Ruby-GNOME2).
> 
> If you come I will show you the real dark power of some Belgian beer ;)
> 
heh :-)

> > > BTW I'm currently stunk on implementing GdaValue in Ruby (this is very
> > > hard to provide good Ruby design with this kind of class), but once this
> > > will be finished, I will try to provide an universal test case, that
> > > Paisa and me could use to test our upgradable data model stuff.
> > >
> > what are the problems you've got with GdaValue? If they are easily
> > fixable without breaking too much the API, it is now a good time to do
> > the modifications in HEAD, before we freeze for 1.2
> > 
> 
> Well, these problems are related to Ruby, not to the C implementation.
> 
> I don't want to 'translate' C interface to Ruby, e.g. to have this:
> 
>   # val is a Gda::Value
>   val.string = 'foo'
>   val.integer = 123
>   # etc... for all data types supported
> 
> I would prefer to have a single method/operator, like this:
> 
>   val.value = 'foo'
>   val.value = 123
>   # etc...
> 
> Which is a better interface I think.
> 
> Or I can provide both interfaces.  I just need to talk to the rest of
> the team (which is the long and tedious part :p), after that
> implementation should come fast.
> 
> Since we talk about HEAD, it would be nice to provide GLib types for all
> libgda classes/structures.
>
hmm, isn't this done? Murray, from gtkmm, added a bunch of GLib types
for that. Maybe there is some missing? Is GdaValue one of them?

cheers