Kexi/KexiDB

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• KexiDB Drivers

See http://kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/[email protected]

libCalligraDB

Minutes from IRC meeting

• 2012-07-03
• requested by jstaniek
• attended by boemann, jstaniek, smitpatel

• idea: storage for bibliography could re-use libKexiDB instead of libQtSQL
• pros:
  • simplify the code
  • increase code re-use - KexiDB is developed 8+ years already with reuse in mind
  • make the database ($HOME/.calligra/biblio.sqlite) accesible to Kexi, so biblio db can be added to the Kexi Scientific templates for data re-use and manipulation
• KexiDB has database and table creation API, QtSQL does not (code complexity)
• cons:
  • size of libKexiDB as dependency (Biblio already uses SQLite3, which is the biggest dependency compared to either QtSQL or KexiDB)
  • we're moving to predicate (but that would happen no earlier than in 3.0, realistically in 3.1 or 3.2), so KexiDB is here for the transition
  • are the APIs stable? (yes, most changes happen in Predicate, moreover KexiDB is calligra's internal API, so will be updated with the apps and the Biblio code)
  • Words cannot depend on Kexi (it wouldn't, relevant parts of KexiDB should be moved to calligra/libs/)

• current state: smitpatel delivered QtSQL-based code for Biblio (within GSoC 2012)

• final agreement has been reached

• KexiDB adoption
• Biblio can be still kept small enough
• jstaniek offers to move relevant part of KexiDB to calligra/libs/
  • the library renames to calligradb and the dir is calligra/libs/db/
• jstaniek offers support for smitpatel in development
• jstaniek offers support for porting when Predicate arrives