Good morning, sir.
> What? Can you be more specific in how you come to this ramblings out of what > i wrote? How would having a standard rather then (at least) two incompatible > solutions create such a mess? It wouldn't, but all sorts of idiots abusing it would. I guess we can all agree that good open standards are good thing for everyone except bastards using proprietary crap to create vendor lock-ins so that they could keep their stranglehold on ICT industry. I just don't like the whole embedding idea very much because "when you create something that even an idiot can use, only idiots will use it". That's how I got to the point where I started rambling about undesirable effects of these technologies. > So how do i use libmysql to connect to my postres database again? None of > those are database libraries. They are database-specific client libraries. > The only C database lib i know that is actively developed i libzdb > (http://www.tildeslash.com/libzdb/documentation.html). You don't. As you've said, libmysql is a client library for MySQL server and libpq is it's PostgreSQL equivalent. I guess you're talking about some wrapper library which serves as another abstraction layer built on top of various database libraries, but I believe using this kind of stuff is a very bad idea, because it only introduces more bugs and it's definitely less efficient than using selected database directly, but if you really need this then there's libdbi, libyada, UNIXODBC and others so this shouldn't be a problem. > In what way is it different? Most things i suggest are already in the > programming model. The OLE/ActiveX-component type of component model for OO > programming does exist. It exists in the form of beans, kpart and bonobo. The > only difference with creating a standard is that kde objects would be usable > in gnome and gnome objects in kde. Again - cooperating to create a solid common open standard is good because it removes a good deal of otherwise duplicated efforts (which is very common across free software landscape). It's just that for example Bonobo has been deprecated since GNOME 2.4 so it's not just me, but even those brilliant guys programming the whole desktop environment thing don't think it's such a good idea, you know… As far as IDEs go, I've personally tried at least Eclipse and NetBeans and they're definitely on the right track. Anyway - although I agree that the lack of native applications for various purposes is one of the main reasons why GNU/Linux has a significant disadvantage to Winblow$ in terms of it's adoption by end users, I don't think this is the right place to discuss software development topics and as far as attracting more so called "software developers" who don't give a rat's ass about free software, I think we're better off without them. -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is a direct subscriber. Status in Club Distro: Invalid Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Invalid Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: New Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: In Progress Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Confirmed Status in “linux” package in Debian: Confirmed Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: New Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
