Re: GNOME Database kit

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard appliedtheory com>]

Eric Kidd wrote:
> 
> At 2:48 PM -0400 8/5/98, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Don't forget the FreeODBC folks. They've implementated an ODBC API and
> written drivers for mySQL, PostgreSQL, mSQL, Oracle, DB/2 and Solid.
> 
> If they use an appropriate license, it would probably be much easier to
> take advantage of their work instead of starting from scratch.
> 

I wasn't aware of the package.  It's GPL'ed no less although it seems to
be somewhat out of date.  I'll join the mailing list and see what's
going on, it's a good place to start.  Thanks for the pointer!  :)

--Chris

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