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