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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ns.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!felix.junction.net!not-for-mail From: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Portable database library for Linux/FreeBSD Date: 23 Apr 1996 19:41:23 -0700 Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting - http://www.memra.com Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4lk4cj$jko@sidhe.memra.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.memra.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14796 gnu.misc.discuss:24635 comp.windows.x.apps:11235 comp.unix.bsd.misc:826 A few years ago I wrote some basic spec for a portable relational database system that could be used for everything from news spool databases to VFS file systems to rolodex applications. I was hoping to find some like minded people on the net to work on building this thing. Have a look at http://sidhe.memra.com/bert.txt I would like to see some coordinated development of apps for Linux/FreeBSD that are designed first, then written, so that they have some staying power and are attractive to a wider base of users than stuff like xfig and ez. One of my goals is to have all those apps use a set of standard file formats so that anyone who has a better idea can simply adopt the file format (say for a word processor document) and write their own app to use it. This would allow for much more diversity of apps than the MS Windows environment because the data files would be portable from one system to another. For instance, I have some ideas for a WP document format that would make it both upwards and downwards compatible so that the first word processor to use it will still be able to read and edit documents created by the latest gee-whiz word processor. If anyone is interested in doing something like this in a collaborative project like GNU, X Consortium, FreeBSD team, Linux developpers, then send me some email and/or follow up to this post. -- Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com