gnucash and Postgresql
Mark Johnson
mrj001 at shaw.ca
Sun Jul 16 23:02:26 EDT 2006
Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Mark Johnson <mrj001 at shaw.ca>:
>
>> Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Klaus Dahlke wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> could someone shed a light on what will happen to the sql-backend? I
>>>>> found it quite helpful (especially for some reporting), but if I am
>>>>> right, creating a database is not maintained any longer and I have
>>>>> read somewhere that the sql-backend should be abundant.
>>>>>
>>>> I think you mean is "abandoned". That's correct. It will probably
>>>> disappear in some future release.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hopefully it will be replaced by a libdbi backend so we can get PG,
>>> MySQL,
>>> and SQLite support. Someone want to volunteer to do this work?
>>>
>> This piqued my curiousity so I looked at the libdbi homepage at
>> Source Forge:
>> http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> It looks like a very low activity project. The last "news" is from
>> November 2005. The newest file in the "src" subdirectory of its CVS
>> is 2 months old. It is currently in beta, and at this rate, doesn't
>> look like it will ever get to a release.
>>
>> I wouldn't recommend basing a backend upon something that does not
>> appear to be supported. Or have I missed a more active project
>> location on the web?
>
>
> Just because there hasn't been a release in a while doesn't mean it isn't
> supported. Libdbi has been released for a very long time. Years. It
> was available even before gnucash 1.8.0 was released! Keep in mind that
> gnucash looked the same for a long time :)
>
What is the form of this support? It doesn't seem to be under active
development.
The project is shown as still being in beta. Suppose we run into a
bug? Will it get fixed? Will we have to fix it ourselves? Do we want
to base a backend on beta software? Do you feel it is sufficiently
stable/debugged to be used despite that beta label?
Mark
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