mySQL framework
mySQL framework
- Subject: mySQL framework
- From: Max J Cantor <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:52:44 -0400 (EDT)
This may be the inappropriate, but, would anyone be interested in
collaborating on a project to create cocoa wrappers for the mysql
libraries? I might be wrong, but wouldn't that address this problem?
-Max
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 email@hidden wrote:
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> Your needs are your needs and they are not the needs of the average
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>developer! The fact that you have quite effectively and capably dealt
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>with databases involving millions of records per table and requiring 15+
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>page SQL statements using 23-way joins is damned impressive....
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> .... and completely outside of the realm of the needs of an average
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>developer!
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Actually, those extremes we both mentioned were actually things we've seen
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that represent a small portion of what we do and are things that we
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specifically DON'T think EOF is good for. We got a little off-topic (and
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took it off-list, BTW) in the discussion, but even if our needs were that
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peculiar, why should Apple take away the existing functionality? That's our
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main point. Not that they should cater new development to the niche
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markets, but that they shouldn't take away the robust set of Enteprise
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tools that were already a part of the system before they removed them.
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There are a great many small scale applications out there for the Mac --
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that have been slowly disappearing -- for such things as Doctors, Dentists
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and Law Office management. There are a lot of FileMaker-based solutions
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that are rather weak compared to what is available for Windows. I think
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that there IS a need and a demand for being able to quickly put together
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database front-ends. Especially given the ease of Cocoa to learn, someone
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who is a Doctor, Lawyer, or whatever but who has some programming
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experience could put together some really great stuff.
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I also think that a tool like EOF/Cocoa is imperative to getting
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penetration into the Enterprise market. If they don't get Apple's inside
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corporations, they are never going to increase market share. Maybe that's
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not important, but I'd like to see it happen.
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And I think you actually made my point in your e-mail. EOF and a database
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like Frontbase or OpenBase gives a small developer a chance to create some
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really great software quickly, which helps the platform.
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So, sorry for the little SQL-pissing match we got into. You're right - it
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was outside the scope of this list, but I don't think because our needs are
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something of a niche is no need to dismiss EOF/Cocoa's potential or
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usefulness to developers at large.
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Jeff
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P.S. I just got a Ti-Book and I have nobody to tell.. =)
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