>>>>> Michael Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> AFAICT, SQLite has considerably more functionality than our current
> dbf driver. I like it for a lot of reasons. A couple issues to
> consider, however.
> dbf is a widely recognized file format that can be read or imported
> by very many other applications directly. While the SQLite database
> engine can export into several interchange format, the native SQLite
> file format is much less widely read by other applications.
> Related to this, GRASS is very weak in interactive data management
> capabilities. This constantly comes up when I demo GRASS. A saving
> grace in this situation is the portability of the dbf attribute table
> format. I can tell people that they can easily manage the attribute
> tables in OpenOffice, for example. This is not the case with SQLite.
Not for the general side of the problem, but Google shows quite
a few links when queried for ``sqlite openoffice''.
[...]
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