On 11 December 2011 01:53, Marcelo Elias Del Valle <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   I am new to GDA and I wonder if it would serve the purposes for my
> project. I would like some help to decide.
>   Please, may you tell if:
> - my GDA app needs a daemon to run?
>

No.


> - I can use GDA on non-visual apps? and without depending on visual
> apps to config it?
>

Yes.


> - I can load gda config from a custom location?
>

Yes, see
http://developer-next.gnome.org/libgda/stable/libgda-5.0-Configuration.html#libgda-5.0-Configuration.description

- I can load custom providers from a location I choose, instead from
> the system's location?
>

If you mean specifying your own directory which is supposed to have your
database providers, then no. However Libgda can be compiled to be installed
in any directory (or even be relocatable), in this case the providers are
loaded from that custom directory (i.e. different from the system one). If
you actually need to specify where you database providers are, it's fairly
easy to add to Libgda.


> - I need an oracle client installed on my machine to use the oracle
> provider?
>

No, what you need are the OCI libraries, which can freely be downloaded
from Orcale's web site. You'll also need them to compile the Oracle
provider.


>
>   The reason I am asking all of this is I wouldn't like my app to
> depend of the entire gnome system to run. It would be good to be
> installed in a gnome environment, but I would like the possibility of
> running my app, possibly with custom GDA providers, on an envinronment
> where I have just glib and gda lib installed and no XServer.
>

No problem. For example one of the tools bundled with Libgda is an SQL
console tool (i.e. SQL shell) which has no GUI.

Regards,

Vivien
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