Michael Barton wrote: > >> I would like to ask you for your opinion... to use sqlite as default > >> db driver for grass64 (instead of dbf). What do you think? > > > > Yes, that would be very good. AFAIK: > > > > Functionality > > - it does all the DBF driver does and way more > > > > Portability > > - works on all common operating systems > > > > Installation efforts: > > - despite the base installation, zero maintenance > > > > Markus > > 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.
I would have expected most applications to access databases via ODBC, rather than trying to interface with DBMS-specific libraries, protocols or file formats directly. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
