Re: EyeDB - GDL2 or separate framework

[David Ayers]

Am Freitag, den 28.11.2008, 13:39 +0000 schrieb David Chisnall:
> I had a quick look at EyeDB, and it appears to be an OODBMS, unlike  
> GDL which is an ORM, and so the two would not mesh well together.  You  
> might consider integrating it in to CoreObject, which is an OODBMS.   
> The GPL means we would not accept the patches, but it could be  
> maintained as a separate framework / bundle.

I agree with this assessment.  EOF is designed for SQL based RDBMS
backends in mind.  It expects to translate object manipulations into SQL
statements.  There are some special cases like the FlatFileEOAdaptor but
they also lack many features innate to the frameworks concepts.

Cheers,
David