Article on Predicate

[Vladislav Blanton]

Thanks for going ahead and working on the Predicate article mutlu. If you
were wondering why the first section was remarkably more readable, I had
begun working on it a couple days ago. But, I then skipped ahead to do the
article on Oxygen :)

Vlad

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:04 PM, mutlu_inek <mutlu_inek at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Dear Commit-digest community and dear Jaroslaw,
>
> I proofread and corrected the Predicate article. Not every single quirk in
> its language has been fixed, but the article is quite readable now. There
> would be an advantage to reorganizing the article so that the argumentative
> structure is more intuitive, but that would take more work and I am not sure
> whether it would be welcome. I made tons of changes already. Regarding its
> language, I would say that it is nearly ready to go. There is one passage
> that remains unclear to me, however. I would be very happy, if someone could
> provide insights into what it is supposed to mean:
>
> Paragraph 9:
> "These are also built on top of KexiDB and that validated values of the
> abstraction layer in even for the client/server processing or even 3-tier
> architectures. During Kexi 1.1 times, Kexi offered a plugin running its own
> web server..."
>
> The remaining issue with this article is that I am not sure whether the
> history of the project it represented accurately. In the beginning, it is
> claimed that KexiDB 1 supported MySQL only, and that the introduction of
> SQLite prompted its rewrite, which resulted (together with a porting to Qt4)
> in KexiDB 2. Later on, however, it is mentioned that there was support for
> many more databases in KexiDB 1. I believe that the latter is correct, i.e.
> that KexiDB was the result of the need to support many DBs. The support for
> all but MySQL and SQLite, however, was dropped with the port to Qt4 (i.e.
> with creating KexiDB 2) and this is still the case for Predicate. If this is
> indeed correct, I will fix the article accordingly.
>
> Cheers,
>
> mutlu
>
>
>
>
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