DBI/SQL backend

[Nathan Buchanan]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>
wrote:

> Nathan Buchanan wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com
> > <mailto:plongstaff at rogers.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I think the DBI/SQL backend is ready to try.  It is in the gda-dev2
> >     branch.  The GDA backend has been disabled and a DBI backend is
> enabled.
> >      It assumes that the include files are in /usr/include/dbi/dbi.h and
> the
> >     driver files are in /usr/lib/dbd.  The only driver that the DBI
> backend
> >     supports is sqlite3.  I am using libdbi-0.8.2.  I assume later
> versions
> >     will work.  I don't know about earlier versions.  There is a
> compilation
> >     check that the header file is present, but no version check.
> >
> >     No new URI types have been added.  If you try to open a file, it will
> >     check if it is an sqlite3 file, and will load it with sqlite3.  If it
> >     can't, it will revert to xml.  Save As will save a file as an sqlite3
> >     file.  The "Connect to Database" menu entry is still enabled but will
> >     (probably) fail.
> >
> >     I don't have a windows compilation environment, so I haven't tried it
> on
> >     windows.
> >
> >
> > So, I got it compiled (with the gmtime fix) and it seems to run ok up
> > until I try to save as. When I choose save as and enter the desired file
> > name I get an error stating "Can't parse the URL
> > C:\soft\test_file\test.db." This happens with *all* names I enter,
> > including *.gnc names, so something is slightly broken ;) I suspect it's
> > that windows formatted name problem again, but can't spend time on it
> > for the next few days.
>
> What's the "windows formatted name problem"?


Probably something similar to r16879. Windows paths contain ':' thus the
logic used before would interpret them as URL's and fail.

Nathan

>
>
> I'm going to try to set up a windows dev envt for myself.
>
> Phil
>
>


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