last word, and no more: Re: sqlite file format, anyone?

[Linas Vepstas]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 01:00:12PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> Ok, this discussion have outlived it's usefulness.  People have points.


OK, last word, and no more:

I am daydreaming about adding several important features to QOF
(http://qof.sourceforge.net), most important is the ability to
(nearly) automatically convert C objects to sql and back.

So far, this is a daydream, I haven't even updated the qof web-page
to talk about it.  I think I might be crazy to contemplate this, 
as there are many interesting comp-sci issues here.   C is not
a language that is suited to this sort of thing.   (qof needs
to reinvent the concept of 'object introspection' and 'object factory'
from scratch).  None-the-less, despite it being crazy, it seems
like something the world needs, and so I hope to prusue it, although
probably at a very very very slow pace.

Discussion invited, with the understanding that its all hypothectical. 
(back when KDE was the 'Kool Desktop Environment' I thought it was
terribly hypothetical until magically all this code came out of nowhere
... and then again, the hypothetical gnome become very real very fast
... )

--linas


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