[Mono-list] libgda/libgnomedb/gnome-db 0.8.190 released

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 18:48, Guenther Roith wrote:
> > This is a big step forward for libgda, which has seen all its CORBA
> > dependencies removed, resulting in a tiny library with a few
> > dependencies (glib/libxml) offering a lot of power (data access to many
> > different unrelated data sources).
> 
> This is good news. System.Data should work easily on unix and MacOS.
> Is OleDB included in all windows versions?
> If not it should be easy to port libgda to windows.
> 
yes, Daniel Morgan is now looking into trying to compile libgda on
windows, which shouldn't be too difficult.

Then, when we have libgda running on windows, I think it will be much
better to use it in place of OleDb. The features will be the same, and
we won't depend at all on any 'external' non-free library.

cheers