On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 14:48, Iain McCoy wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 22:51, Soeren wrote: > > Just to answer myself: It turns out gda-sharp belongs to the > > gtk-sharp package (not entirely logical to a newbie like me :) > > but its not contained in the gtk-sharp rpm (0.31). Its compiled > > by default when using the gtk-sharp 0.31 tarball. > > > > Is gda-sharp deprecidated or why is it not included in the rpm? > gda-sharp is a libgda wrapper, and libgda is part of Gnome's database > access stuff. I imagine it's included in gtk# so that if C code returns > a gda type you can still use it, but not included in the gtk-sharp > packages because you should probably be using System.Data (or ByteFX or > npgsql, or however it is that they go) for .net-friendly data access > stuff rather than libgda.
Isnt System.Data = ADO, a part of .net thats not ECMA standard and might be patent encumbered? I am just asking because that was my initial reason to go with gnome database access instead of System.Data, but I have no idea really how far the ECMA standard goes. _______________________________________________ Mono-docs-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-docs-list
