Re: Newbie Question about the DBKit

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4cker?= <dont.wanna.tell@web.de> wrote:
> 
> Salve!
> 
> Uhm, I dont really know how to ask this, but here I go...
> 
> Is it possible to use the DBKit under Mac OS X?

You mean the gdl (GNUstep Database Library), don't you?

The DBKit was what existed on NeXTSTEP (not OpenStep) before EOF.


I don't know of  any reason why gdl could not be  compiled and used on
MacOSX. In addition, it's under the  LGPL, therefore it can be used by
any   kind  of   application.   See  gnustep/dev-libs/db/INSTALL   and
gnustep/dev-libs/db/COPYING.LIB.


> While following this list and the Cocoa-List from Apple for some time 
> I kinda learned that there is much demand for this by many OS X 
> programmers.
> 
> The problem is that Apple just "accidently" :(( dropped support for 
> WebObjects in ObjC and thus its far harder to do database integration 
> in Cocoa.
> 
> So right now all these devellopers are just hanging in the middle of 
> some very thin air.
> 
> On the other hand you´ve got this Phantastik piece of software, that 
> everybody seems to want but nobody seems to knows... (uhm, you get 
> what I´m meaning... :)
> 
> So my question is: What would it take to make it possible to access 
> the DBKit from Cocoa apps? Although I tried to find this out by 
> following this list and reading whatever Info I could find on the 
> GnuStep Websites, I´m sorry that I for myself are far too much of a 
> newbee to find this out for myself. :(
> 
> My current understanding of this issue is that the DBKit somehow uses 
> very much of the GnuStep parts that differ from OS X, so that it 
> would be impossible to port it.
> 
> Or that the Code simply isent there, in terms of functionality.
> 
> Sorry, but I dont know where to ask or search next, so please give me 
> a hint. :)
> 
> Also, wouldn't this be _THE_ chance to make the GnuStep Project 
> _very_ popular among a ton of OS X developers.
> 
> Wouldn't it? <gg>
> 
> thx in advance,
> Martin
> -- 
> dont.wanna.tell
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