On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 11:11 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:29:59PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya was heard to remark: > > > > You are saying qof provides you what you need for GNUCash. > > QOF is the internal object framwork inside of gnucash that > is "generic" and is independent of the fact that gnucash deals > with finacial objects. It is in the process of being split > out of gnucash. The split-out is not complete, there are still > important parts that remain inside of gnucash, and haven't > been abstracted yet. > that sounds great
> > That's great, > > so then let's see what it's got and how it could be merged/used in > > addition to/whatever with libgda. I guess you are using some API to > > access the databases, am I right? If so, what API(s)? > > The API that we use for database acesss is "QOF". > yes, but then, QOF, what does it use to directly access the DB? native postgres/mysql libraries? odbc? > > Could those API(s) > > be replaced with libgda, which provides an abstraction over many > > supported RDBMS? What changes would be needed in libgda to allow that? > > I've already tried to answer these questions in earlier emails. > I'm trying to be as clear as possible. We can't replace QOF > with libgda because libgda is missing many features. > nobody is saying to replace qof with libgda, but to use libgda in QOF. cheers _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
