On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 12:23 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > Back in 2012 I think it was I tried glom and found it didn't quite do > what I wanted. However I'm probably looking for something different > now and also glom has moved on. > > So, a couple of initial questions about how it uses databases. I > know > that back in 2012 my major issue with glom was that it used > postresql, > it still does but things seem to have changed a bit. > > I have installed glom on my xubuntu 15.10 system
Using the PPA packages, right? The official Ubuntu packages are usually terribly out of date and buggy. > and tried some of the > examples, these seem somehow to work with local files rather than a > database server. Can I get it to work the same way with my own > databases (i.e. ones I have created myself with glom)? Will these > databases be compatible with any other software or are they specific > glom format? It always uses a (PostgreSQL) database server. Unless you choose to use an existing PostgreSQL database server, it starts one every time you open the file. > Presumably if I install a postgresql server then glom can use that > and > share the databases with other programs. Yes? Yes. You probably do have a PostgreSQL server installed, because it's a dependency of Glom. And it's probably running, because that's how the packages work in debian/Ubuntu. But it's probably not configured. > Finally what is the status of sqlite3 in glom? Has the code been > maintained at all? Can I build from source with the sqlite3 support > and expect it to work? At least in the lower-level of the code (libglom and libgda) the support is always there, and always tested by Glom's "make check" regression tests. However, I have no plans to offer that choice in the UI by default. It might work for you. -- Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com _______________________________________________ glom-devel-list mailing list glom-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/glom-devel-list
