Re: Development of cross-platform GUI for Open Source DBs - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hey

Sorry for the critical mistake. Pressed the SEND button too early. In
the first para I meant:

The reason I *want* to develop the project in wxWindows or a C/C++
based toolkit is that in the end I would be able to compile a binary
which will have least dependency and can be bundled for downloaded in
a single binary. With my experience while developing and selling
SQLyog, I came across many customers who were working on a slow dial
up connection for whom downloaded a 10MB package was also a pain. I
have had customers who just had plain vanilla Win98 machines and
SQLyog used to run great on it.

instead of:

The reason I *don't want* to develop the project in wxWindows or a C/C++
based toolkit is that in the end I would be able to compile a binary
which will have least dependency and can be bundled for downloaded in
a single binary. With my experience while developing and selling
SQLyog, I came across many customers who were working on a slow dial
up connection for whom downloaded a 10MB package was also a pain. I
have had customers who just had plain vanilla Win98 machines and
SQLyog used to run great on it.

Ritesh

On 11/28/06, Ritesh Nadhani <rn.mailing@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All
>
> Sorry for the late reply. Been a little busy with my assignments.
>
> I will try to answer all the queries in this mail.
>
> The reason I don't want to develop the project in wxWindows or a C/C++
> based toolkit is that in the end I would be able to compile a binary
> which will have least dependency and can be bundled for downloaded in
> a single binary. With my experience while developing and selling
> SQLyog, I came across many customers who were working on a slow dial
> up connection for whom downloaded a 10MB package was also a pain. I
> have had customers who just had plain vanilla Win98 machines and
> SQLyog used to run great on it.
>
> Another reason why suggested wxWidgets is because I have worked with
> it before and I am comfortable with the system. As somebody suggested,
> even wxPython looks good as Python greatly increases the speed of
> implementation.
>
> Also, IDEs like Delphi etc. are out of question as I cant afford to
> buy the licenses.
>
> I have no experience with XUL but it looks good. I am not sure, how
> easy is to design GUI with lots of forms etc, with XUL. Writing an
> initial prototype in XUL will make things more clear.
>
> Even though I am not related to Webyog (developer of SQLyog) anymore,
> I had started a project up there called SQLyog Max (which didn't work
> due to time constraints rather then technological constraints) and we
> even released one BETA release that had support for both MySQL and
> PostgreSQL.
>
> I believe developing an actual prototype would help our cause more
> then just deciding upon which tool kit to use. My semester gets over
> on 15th December. I plan to sit with it after that. Right now I am
> thinking of an architecture which can support something like this.
>
> If you have any idea how something like should be designed or
> architectured, please provide me with your invaluable suggestions.
>
> In other related question, my primary desktop of usage is Mac OS X but
> I will be buying a Ubuntu box soon so expect decent development
> parallely in Mac and Linux. I am not sure about Windows but if we
> write correct wxWidgets/wxPython code, it should be a 0 issue to get
> it compiled in Windows.
>
> Ritesh
>
> On 11/28/06, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> >
> > > For a general purpose language, lately I've been taking a really good look
> > > at 'D', which looks to be an amazing language.  Has anybody tried to hook
> > > up postgresql to D?
> >
> >    No, I haven't. But, if you want a cross-platform language and GUI toolkit,
> > consider Python and wxPython.
> >
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