On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Andy Halper wrote:
> > 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.
>
> So that means...plug-in? The more I think about it, the more I see
> how this would be the better way to go. I just didn't know if it
> would be possible.
I don't think it would be too hard. We just need a way to expose an
objects attributes. Named attributes should be doable.
> Don't get me wrong, I'd love to support Oracle too. I was just going
> to start with the common free ones and then move on to the common
> commercial ones. My priorities would probably go: Ingres, MySQL,
> PostgreSQL, RDB, Oracle.
Neither MySQL nor PostgreSQL support foreign keys, though, so AFAIK there
isn't enough schema information held in the database to construct a schema
diagram without help.
Matthew.
