sqlite in kde4

[Martin Ellis]

Hi,

On Friday 02 Sep 2005 13:55, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote:
> I know this topic was already discussed for kde3/qt3. We have now chance to
> bring sqlite3 to kde as base. I would suggest that we require sqlite3
> support in qt4. What do you guys think?
> In case there will be sqlite4, I hope trolls will keep up, and add it to
> future releases of qt4 too.

In principle, I think this is generally a good idea. How many apps would
have to be rebuilt if there is a security vulnerability in SQLite now?  I use 
at least three of them ... Much better to have fewer copies lying around.

But:

In Kexi, we generally want to be shipping something near
to the latest version of SQLite, as it's implementation isn't
quite complete yet.

(e.g. although full alter table support is perhaps not particularly
important for apps with fairly static DB schemas. With Kexi, it'll 
be pretty important for users to have the latest sqlite version)

But we don't want to be in the position of forcing users to upgrade
their entire KDE version just to get the latest built-in SQLite to get
Kexi features to work.
They should only have to upgrade their Kexi version of course.

Of course, we could continue to supply our own copy in addition to
that in KDE.  I wonder if there's a better way to do this?


Something else that comes to mind is - does KDE have it's own copy;
or use the system copy; or can the packager choose which copy
to use?

Cheers
Martin