On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Andy Halper wrote:
> > I've also been playing with Oracle and have some Perl
> > to turn a table list into SQL creation scripts. I'd
> > like to hack something like Visio's database map into
> > dia, but I'm not rightly sure where I should start.
>
> I have also been eyeing Dia as a platform for a free
> ER/database-design tool, but I had something in mind more ambitious
> along the lines of ERwin. It would be nice to design it as a plug-in,
> but I can see how there could be advantages of taking a seperate
> development track.
The dia code looks to me sufficiently nice that it would be easier to bolt
on an extension API than to rewrite the interface engine.
> I think I would start with support for MySQL and PostgreSQL first.
> My reasoning is that if you can afford Oracle, you can probably afford
> Designer 2000, ERwin, Visio, etc.
Probably true. I just happen to have a reasonable subset of Oracle
reference books, and my printer's a bit short on toner :)
Matthew.
