[Mono-docs-list] monodoc newbie]

[Soeren]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 14:48, Iain McCoy wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 22:51, Soeren wrote:
> > Just to answer myself: It turns out gda-sharp belongs to the 
> > gtk-sharp package (not entirely logical to a newbie like me :) 
> > but its not contained in the gtk-sharp rpm (0.31). Its compiled
> > by default when using the gtk-sharp 0.31 tarball.
> > 
> > Is gda-sharp deprecidated or why is it not included in the rpm?
> gda-sharp is a libgda wrapper, and libgda is part of Gnome's database
> access stuff. I imagine it's included in gtk# so that if C code returns
> a gda type you can still use it, but not included in the gtk-sharp
> packages because you should probably be using System.Data (or ByteFX or
> npgsql, or however it is that they go) for .net-friendly data access
> stuff rather than libgda.

Isnt System.Data = ADO, a part of .net thats not ECMA standard
and might be patent encumbered? I am just asking because that was
my initial reason to go with gnome database access instead of
System.Data, but I have no idea really how far the ECMA standard
goes.