Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications

[Roberto Alsina]

> Roberto Alsina wrote:
>>>Please look @ the Kexi Project. We are working on reusing good features
>>> of
>>>sqlite and be more engine-independent than QSQL module, and more KDElibs
>>>friently what caould be hopefully labeled by "designed for KDE"
>>
>>
>> Could it be used by a Qt app? That's just as a personal question.
>
> Currently, only dependencies we have in KexiDB is that
> KexiDB::DriverManager
> (that is in fact driver factory) uses KDE's KServices as Drivers database.
> And
>   some kdebugs. So, we plan to extract appropriate layer that makes KexiDB
> fully qt-only lib and move kde-dependencies to thin sub-layer.
>
>> When you say "reusing good features of sqlite", you mean you are
>> implementing your own embedded database?
>
> We have now sqlite's sources in kexi/3rdparty/ dir, although not yet
> modified.
> We are prepared to modifications, if any reasonable idea will come, but
> still
> we are hardly trying to use just original sqlite sources.

Cool. This completely covers what I wanted. Any estimated timeframe for
Kexi being generally useful?

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