Firebird Database support

William L. Thomson Jr. support at obsidian-studios.com
Fri Aug 5 18:29:50 EDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 23:47 +0200, Derek Atkins wrote:
> "William L. Thomson Jr." <support at obsidian-studios.com> writes:
> 
> >> The idea is to use a DB abstraction system, like GDA or DBI, so we
> >> could let the user decide which db backend to use...
> >
> > That would be a good idea. Googling around a bit, I am not coming up
> > with to many documents. On how one would go about implementing. GDA or
> > DBI.
> 
> Try searching for "libdbi" or "gnomedb"

Cool thanks will do. Kept coming up with with Perl DBI stuff ;)

> >>   And THEN we can
> >> make the "default" (file) backend be SQLite ;)
> >
> > I assume for performance reasons over XML?
> 
> Among others.  See the archives over the last three years for multiple
> discussions on this topic.

Will do as well.

> > Sure I would be willing to help in any way I can.
> 
> As I said, I'm hoping the responsible parties will speak up....

Well no worries. No rush. Something I have been thinking about for a
while so I figured I would enact upon my thoughts :)

-- 
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Support Group
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
http://www.obsidian-studios.com



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