John McCawley wrote:
>
> First of all, great work on the wx/C++ port! I had contributed a
> little bit to the VB pgAdmin2 a little over a year ago when C++
> discussions first started. I was amazed to see this wx port completed
> so quickly!
Thanks!
>
> At the time I was (and still am) working on a datamodeler for postgres
> (http://www.hardgeus.com/projects/pgdesigner/). At the time it was in
> FLTK but I became frustrated with the library, so I switched to wx. I
> have had quite a bit of interest in the project, but I have never
> really gotten enough inertia to overcome a couple of the GUI humps
> I've hit. I thought I'd try to give a go at merging my codebase into
> pgAdmin3 so here I am.
I didn't have the time to look at your code or binary so far, just some
thoughts:
A data model designer is a very important tool, we really should have
this as open source! I've been working with SyBase AppModeler a long
time, and I like the multi-database target abilities. While my heart
belongs to PostgreSQL, I feel that a modeling tool should support all
database systems.
We're a quite careful about what to integrate into pgAdmin3 itself; the
tool is dedicated to database administrative tasks, and we feel it's not
too helpful to have a menu item that starts an independent window for a
new set of features. Still, there's the need for a whole suite of tools
(the "pgAdmin suite" we might call it), one of them being pgAdmin3, one
data centric manipulation and import tool (planning/brain storming
stage), a scheduling tool (pgAgent, embryonic in cvs), and (in the
dreams) a data model designer. The latter might well be pgdesigner.
Please feel free to use the pgAdmin3 code base to learn how to use wx
libraries. IMHO, we're doing quite a good job supporting multiple
platforms, and the build system may well be reusable for pgdesigner
purposes. A DM designer is _the_ app I'd like to contribute next.
Realistically, I might not have the time to do so intensively, but I'd
like to add my knowledge.
There are some other guys who had built a MySQL centric tool in Delphi,
planing to rewrite it with wxWindows, targeted to more database systems.
Maybe forces could be joined.
>
> Is there a newer wxGTK snapshot I should be using with the CVS version
> of pgAdmin3?
Yes, there is; please use wxWindows-pgAdmin3-20031010-6.tar.bz2. The
compiler error shows that there's at least one required patch missing
that makes the two methods mentioned public.
Regards,
Andreas
