On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 17:00 +0100, Magnus Bergman wrote: > I'm about to write a Gnome-VFS module for accessing SQL databases > (primary MySQL and Oracle). > if you use libgda (http://www.gnome-db.org) you'll get access to those and more databases for free.
> And I was wondering if there is some kind of > standard related to mapping a URL to an SQL query. And if I'm forced to > hack something myself I would appreciate opinions from others. > I've many times thought about doing a database: method for VFS, but I ended up not doing because it really makes no sense, to have a database being accessed like a file system. The only thing I could come up to was to have just database: be a special nautilus folder that would show all database connections as folders, and when you visit them, show the tables in those databases. But I guess it's better to have a nice program for accessing those databases than doing it via the file system. Another idea would be to use an underlying database and offer it as a file system, showing it like a file system in nautilus, not like databases. Something like MS's WinFS. That would make sense, IMO, for which you don't need that complicated URI scheme, you just need to be able to access the files as any other file system, like database://photo.jpg. What were your ideas? -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
