On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 09:21 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote: > 2009/6/17 Bas Driessen <[email protected]> > > Hello, > > I am porting my applications from libgda 3 to 4. In order to > even start, I need to have access to some data sources. > libgnomedb is the tool to create those. However, in Fedora 11 > this is broken (3.99.7). As soon as you press the new data > source, the application crashes. Therefore, I decided to > compile libgnomedb myself. However that failed. Output below > in this message if interested. > > Yes, I know about the problem, and it has been fixed in git, but not > yet released (see bug #575469). > > I have spent the last few weeks working on integrating Libgnomedb's > features which are generic enough into a libgdaui library for which > the sources are part of Libgda (of course their compilation is > optional), so Libgnomedb won't have any new release. The reason for > doing this are: > * it's hard to maintain 2 libraries which are so closely tied > * I wanted to have a control center for Libgda, but this was part only > of Libgnomedb > * Same for a simple database structure browser: the one in Libgnomedb > is useless and Mergeant is yet into another set of sources, so I've > created a new one which will be part of Libgda's sources > * Some of Libgnomedb's widgets are not generic enough to be in a > generic library > > I plan to publish that work soon, and will make a 4.1.1 release with > all this. >
Understood. Sounds good. Does that mean that with libgda 4.1.1 the existing libgda API will break again or is that too early to tell? > Can someone please tell me where I put my data sources and how > they should look like? In libgda 3, there was a dir .libgda > that contained a file called config with a layout like this: > > <section path="/apps/libgda/Datasources/stocksql"> > <entry name="DSN" type="string" > value="DB_NAME=stock;HOST=localhost;PORT=5432"/> > <entry name="Description" type="string" value="Stock > database in PostgreSQL"/> > <entry name="Password" type="string" value=""/> > <entry name="Provider" type="string" value="PostgreSQL"/> > <entry name="Username" type="string" value="test"/> > </section> > > When I put this in place, libgda 4 is not picking this up. Can > someone give me a sample of a libgda 4 data source, the name > of that file and the location? > > The way DSN are stored in V4 has not changed since V3, so if you > copied the ~/.libgda/config file from V3, it should work with V4 as > well. You can check that with: > > gda-sql -l > > BTW, make sure you enclosed that DSN definition in the proper tags: > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <libgda-config> > ...your DSN here... > </libgda-config> > Ok, if I put the config file in /etc/libgda-4.0 then the data sources are visible from libgda. However, if I put the config file in $HOME/.libgda/ then they are not visible. I am using the default install which comes with Fedora 11, so not sure if there are changes/settings there to disable the home directory setting. Anyway, for now this works for me, as I can now actually connect to a database and continue the porting. Thanks for your help Vivian and I will probably be back shortly with some other queries :) Bas.
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