Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications

[Ralf Nolden]

On Sunday 21 September 2003 04:11, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> While Qt has gained in versions 3.x a decent support for the development
> of applications that require access to databases, it is rare to find a KDE
> app that uses that support.
>
> Why? Because the drivers included with Qt are for databases that require
> some administration, and thus are not a realistic requirement for a
> regular user.
>
> What's needed? A driver for an embedded database should be included in
> kdelibs. That way, we would encourage the development of such
> applications, much like Visual Basic's embedded DB driver did.
>
> What's proposed? Adding one such driver to kdelibs. I propose qsqlite
> (http://qsqlite.sf.net). While it has not been too tested, I think it
> pretty much works (KRecipes uses it, some other app, too), and if it
> doesn't, it's really a fairly small and simple piece of code.
qsqlite is GPL, so adding it to kdelibs is not a good idea unless it's LGPL 
I'd say.

Ralf
>
> The only added requirement would be sqlite, which is small, stable and
> works pretty much everywhere.
>
> Alternatives: Mysql-embedded could be used. I don't know the details, pros
> or cons about it.

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