Re: [gnome-db] Future characteristic

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 16:10 -0500, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
>  --- Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com> escribió: 
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:40:13 -0500 (CDT), Daniel
> > Espinosa
> > <esodan yahoo com mx> wrote:
> > > Looks good.
> > > 
> > > I want to help in the GnomeDbForm port from
> > Mergeant,
> > > then when you'll have an snapshot in the CVS? Or
> > can I
> > > help with the source of Mergeant?
> > > 
> > 
> > I'd like to have a bit more feedback before actually
> > starting the
> > Libgnomedb/Libmergeant merge. I'd like to start that
> > merge before mid
> > november, though.
> 
> What do you mean with "more feedback"? Is it about the
> merge proporsals?
> 
yes, we'd appreciate comments from people other than Vivien and me :)

> > 
> > Mergeant's code is quite small (basic count is under
> > 10000 lines) and
> > easy to understand (in ${topdir}/frontend). If you
> > want to help with
> > Mergeant, then there are several small things you
> > can start with:
> > * Query editor cases, 
> > * Query creation druid, 
> > * mergeant startup options, 
> > * translation strings cleanup, 
> > * MySQL, Oracle, etc testing (I do all the work with
> > Postgres)
> > * user documentation improvements
> 
> Why don't to merge in CVS, and work with the
> improvements for the next realese; and may I can test
> the API with some applications for feedback and
> sugestions.
> 
we are deciding now how to do the merge, it's not as simple as a CVS
merging, we have duplicated functionality, extensions, and we need to
sort out how to do all that.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>