Re: patch for libgnomedb headers

From: Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo@gnome-db.org)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 19:40:43 EDT

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    On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 15:33, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > > If needed I'd be happy to help on the table creation
    > > part of the code.
    > > Though I'm sure Dom has that covered. This would be
    > > really cool, I'm
    > > looking forward to this feature.
    > >
    > > Can libgda use Gnumeric and/or Evo address book/
    > > appointments files as a
    > > data sources? It would be really cool to be able to
    > > pull info direct from
    > > those. We would start to have something like an
    > > office suite then.
    >
    > It'd be great to be able to use Gnumeric generically
    > as a data source. That said, right now we're capable
    > of using some Gnumeric files as data sources - that
    > is, any file saved in CSV format or a tab-delimited
    > text format. This route is sub-optimal, but it's
    > preferable to nothing. If we could link a plugin to a
    > (currently non-existant) libgnumeric.so or similar,
    > this'd be great.
    >
    > I'd also like to setup Evo as a data source. Ximian OO
    > did this, but it's a hack. I've been advised by
    > various Ximian employees not to follow down the same
    > route, and that they'd suggest a preferable alternate
    > strategy.
    >
    > But yes, if we can get Mergeant, Evo, and Gnumeric as
    > data sources, that'd be wicked-sweet.
    >
    we can make all these programs implement a GDA provider, which would
    automatically be available to GDA clients. Doing a data source for
    Evolution's default addressbook and calendar is not difficult at all,
    and I might have a look at it as soon as I finish the data selection
    GUI. Doing data sources for other folders is the tricky part, since
    there is no way, without starting the evolution shell, of getting a list
    of folders.

    cheers



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