On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <stan...@kde.org> wrote:
> On 23 February 2012 13:31, Smit Patel <smitpate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'd like to propose a GSoC project. Here's the brief description about > > project idea. > > Provide a dbus API that provides an generic interface that can be used by > > external bibliography engines (xbiblio, kbibtex, bibus) > > Calligra words doesn't have a good way to manage references. These > engines > > can manage references and insert bibliography using interface provided. > > Hello, > That's nice idea. First question - would you see this as a project > emploing databases (e.g. SQLite) and adding some GUIs? No. But this has to be done for sure (not necessarily part of this GSoC project). > If so I am proposing a high-level layer on top of Calligra, i.e. used > by Kexi (KexiDB/Predicate), because regardless of what are your ideas, > Kexi _eventually_ will have bibliography module written in Kexi > itself, just like LibreOffice's bibligraphy is implemented on top of > LibreOffice (Base) foundations itself. > > Regarding dbus I am not sure it is so useful as data > sharing/transmitting layer, it's an IPC after all. It's not like ODBC > and never was designed for this. From time to time I see such attempts > to relate these two distinct tools. > Think dbus as a way of doing RPC. But now dbus/RPC is not the concern. > > Moreover, a better approach at the moment would be to discuss what > 'good managing references' means for us, and not such a detail as > IPC/storage. I mentioned Predicate only because of assumed integration > with Calligra, to show that there're tools in hand already available. > > -- > regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek > Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) > KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel >
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