QOF, GnuCash, dependencies and SQL

[Derek Atkins]

The dependencies are FC3 (which is effectively RHEL4).

-derek

Quoting Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk>:

> Just checking, GnuCash currently does not build the SQL components of QOF?
>
> qofsql.c|h are in src/engine but not in the Makefile.am
>
> I want to use SQL handling in the CashUtil CLI.
>
> I also want to provide a generic data handling dialog in GnuCash that will
> also use SQL. (After G2).
>
> I can overhaul the QOF build process to bring in a dependency on libgda2 and
> libgda2-dev, (in order to provide SQL access within the CLI).
>
> The problem is the Debian libgda dependency on libxml2 is again higher than
> GnuCash requires - 2.6.16 - which we've already ruled out. QSF uses 2.5.10
> and I was surprised that even the Debian stable version of libgda put the
> libxml2 dependency so high. I'm currently using libgda 1.2.1-2.
>
> libgda is available on FC3 and FC4 (according to a google search)
>
> libgda-1.2.0-5.2.src.rpm is listed under FC4 Extras:
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/4/x86_64/libgda-devel-1.2.0-5.2.x86_64.html
>
> libgda-1.0.4-3 would appear to be FC3, with a more usable libxml2-devel >=
> 2.4.12
>
> Indeed, libgda appears to have been in FC1 which makes me think there was a
> good reason NOT to use it when QOF was first being developed.
> :-(
>
> From the lib/libsql/README:
> I copied this code here because I did not want to make QOF dependent
> on the install of libgda or libsql.  If/when libsql is widely
> available and readily installed, then maybe we can remove this code.
> In the meanwhile, this copy will stop "dependency hell".
>
> --Linas  Vepstas 7 April 2004
>
> Is it time to revisit this?
>
> Is this an overlap with the SQLite work?
>
> Am I off on a wild-goose-chase? (or opened a can of worms?)
>
> How can I test that libgda-1.0.4 is a suitable dependency for qofsql.c ?
>
> I suspect it was 1.0.3 that Linas used :
> libgda/libgnomedb 1.0.4 released 2004/April/18
> http://www.gnome-db.org/news.php
> libgda/libgnomedb 1.0.3 released 2004/January/17
>
> 1.0.4 certainly contains files that are familiar from qof's 
> lib/libsql folder.
>
> How high should we go? FC4 made a big jump to 1.2.0.
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/4/i386/libgda-1.2.0-5.i386.html
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/x86_64/libgda-1.0.4-3.i386.html
>
> Is it FC3 or 4 that determines dependencies for G2?
>
> --
>
> Neil Williams
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