Re: Newbie Question about the DBKit

[Martin Häcker]

> On Montag, Januar 28, 2002, at 12:31  Uhr, Stephen Peters wrote:
>
> > Martin Häcker <mhaecker@mac.com> writes:
> >
> > > Also another question: It seems that the gdl (right this time? <g>)
> > > has no flat file Adoptor, although this seems to be the most
> > > requested feature (on the os x mailing list). How much knowledge of
> > > the DBKit or EOF would it take to write one? Or has it already been
> > > done?
> >
> > I think it's sort of been done.  The gdl is based on EOF2, and I
> > believe that the Rhapsody release included an example flat file
> > adapter that worked with EOF2.  Haven't dug out that code and compiled
> > it with gdl yet, though, so it's anyone's guess how much hacking it
> > might need.
>
> No, GDL ist based on EOF 1.x. EOF 2 and above are incompatible to
> GDL (with EOF 2 EOEditingContext, EOObjectStore and a lot more was
> introduced ...)
>
> Anyway, writing an adaptor which works without a database would
> certainly be an interesting and not too difficult thing (eg using
> libMySQL ?).

Uh oh... I´l probably have to learn a lot more before I can do such
"interesting" things. <g>

Just to do a bold question: Could "interesting" mean that you could
do it in about half an hour? <ggg>

Sorry, could´nt resist. ;)

cu Martin
--
dont.wanna.tell
[ot]coder - hehe
ICQ: 58088802