Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications

[Andras Mantia]

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On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:32, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> [snip]
> >> > Another reason could be : because no KDE application has any need for
> >> a
> >> > DB.
> [snip]
> >> Examples of applications where a DB makes sense:
> >>
> >> Recipe app (KRecipes)
> >> Mail/News client (why not?, it makes "search folders" way simpler)
> >> CD/Book/Whatever catalog
> >
> > Yes, KMusicDB uses it...
> 
> And that's a good example. The app seems more or less useful (I own like
> 2 CDs, so I'm not qualified ;-), but you have to install (not so hard)
> and configure (somewhat hard) a postgresql server to keep your CDs in
> order?

Yes, that's the case.


> So, the author pf the app can either create an app that will have
> trouble finding users, or have trouble kicking a text file into
> doing his bidding.
You are completely right. KDE apps trying to deal with SQL databases rely on 
the user to configure their mysql/postgresql server. But a regular user in 
most cases is not a system administrator. Providing some way that still 
allows the programmer to use SQL databases from his KDE app, but which 
doesn't require a (somewhat) hard to set up database server would be very 
welcome. VB is an example (I didn't use it), Borland Delphi/Kylix is another 
one. It very easy to develop DB applications with it and the end user doesn't 
have to do anything else, but install the application and run it.

Andras

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