Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 16:49 -0700, Rob Adams wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:31 +0900, Jan Morén wrote:
> 
> > Let Markus run Postgres, let Jamie run Firebird, let me run MySQL, and
> > perhaps have SQlite as the default, built-in provider in case no DB is
> > actually installed by the user?
> 
> There's only so far really that you can carry that.  MySQL, for example,
> has severe limitation with respect to subqueries and some other features
> that are found in more complete SQL implementations.  Should GNOME
> restrict itself to the lowest common denominator?  Or perhaps our DB
> abstraction API could have a "capabilities" API to check for certain
> backend capabilities before allowing you to run applications that depend
> on more advanced features.
> 
yes, and that's what gnome-db provides. It offers access to the highest
common denominator, and then each driver for each database specifies
which stuff it supports and which it does not.

cheers