Good morning, sir.
> What? Can you be more specific in how you come to this ramblings out of what > i wrote? How would having a standard rather then (at least) two incompatible > solutions create such a mess? It wouldn't, but all sorts of idiots abusing it would. I guess we can all agree that good open standards are good thing for everyone except bastards using proprietary crap to create vendor lock-ins so that they could keep their stranglehold on ICT industry. I just don't like the whole embedding idea very much because "when you create something that even an idiot can use, only idiots will use it". That's how I got to the point where I started rambling about undesirable effects of these technologies. > So how do i use libmysql to connect to my postres database again? None of > those are database libraries. They are database-specific client libraries. > The only C database lib i know that is actively developed i libzdb > (http://www.tildeslash.com/libzdb/documentation.html). You don't. As you've said, libmysql is a client library for MySQL server and libpq is it's PostgreSQL equivalent. I guess you're talking about some wrapper library which serves as another abstraction layer built on top of various database libraries, but I believe using this kind of stuff is a very bad idea, because it only introduces more bugs and it's definitely less efficient than using selected database directly, but if you really need this then there's libdbi, libyada, UNIXODBC and others so this shouldn't be a problem. > In what way is it different? Most things i suggest are already in the > programming model. The OLE/ActiveX-component type of component model for OO > programming does exist. It exists in the form of beans, kpart and bonobo. The > only difference with creating a standard is that kde objects would be usable > in gnome and gnome objects in kde. Again - cooperating to create a solid common open standard is good because it removes a good deal of otherwise duplicated efforts (which is very common across free software landscape). It's just that for example Bonobo has been deprecated since GNOME 2.4 so it's not just me, but even those brilliant guys programming the whole desktop environment thing don't think it's such a good idea, you know… As far as IDEs go, I've personally tried at least Eclipse and NetBeans and they're definitely on the right track. Anyway - although I agree that the lack of native applications for various purposes is one of the main reasons why GNU/Linux has a significant disadvantage to Winblow$ in terms of it's adoption by end users, I don't think this is the right place to discuss software development topics and as far as attracting more so called "software developers" who don't give a rat's ass about free software, I think we're better off without them. -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
