Re: GNOME Database kit

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard appliedtheory com>]

Adam Keys wrote:
 
> > Have you looked at the ODBC API yet? It is much more mature, it does what
> > we need, and it is an industry standard...
> The problem so far as I see is that ODBC drivers must be written and
> that ODBC is a bit complex.  These are all my perceptions, I could be
> wrong.

Sort of.  ODBC isn't deathly complex although I wouldn't describe it as
simple either.  It's pretty well thought out and well documented.  For
some examples of ODBC drivers you can look at the most recent ODBC
driver kit ( 3.5 ) from MS which contains the source code for the trace
driver.  Also, take a look at the source code for the MyODBC driver as
well.  Then get scared. :)

On this note, I did a small writeup for an ODBC arch for GNOME a couple
of weeks ago:

http://odin.appliedtheory.com/gnome/odbc/

Please note that we probably don't want to directly tie ODBC or anyother
generalized database access mechanism directly to a windowing toolkit.

--Chris

-- 

------------
Christopher Blizzard
http://odin.appliedtheory.com/
------------