Re: [GNUe] Reports from DBF Files

[Karl M. Joch]

Hello,

Reinhard Mueller wrote:

> Hello,
>
> it's very nice to see you here on this list, and I've always wanted to
> thank you for creating the FreeBSD ports for GNUe!

Not a problem, I am really interested in GNUE so I was interested to see 
it working on FreeBSD.

> Am Mit, den 25.08.2004 schrieb Karl M. Joch um 1:06:
>
> > Trying to create some reports on FreeBSD from Clipper/DBF Files.
>
>
> The dbf dbdriver for gnue is based on an external python dbf library
> which also has to be installed.
>
> Our project member Jan Ischebeck has has created this driver, and AFAIK
> noone else of the gnue team has ever used it. Unfortunately, we haven't
> heard from Jan lately, as he seems to be busy with real life.
>
> We have tried to find out what external python dbf library he has used,
> and all we found out is that it's *not* http://www.fiby.at/dbfpy/ :-(
>
> Maybe Jan sees this mail and can help us. Or maybe somebody else has
> managed to make dbf run.
>
> If you really think it would be wort the effort, we could also create a
> new driver that is based on the fiby module mentioned above. For this,
> it would be interesting how others see the need for a dBase compatible
> dbdriver for GNUe.
>
> Thanks,

I searched and found 3 things:

http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~mspal/pystuff/dbf.txt
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-July/053128.html
http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/shapelib/2004-May/000076.html

it looks ilke to me that the first one could be the neccecary module. I 
will try it soon, but finally this one has no support for index files. 
In the first step i would like to add some reports to an very old 
application we are running. without indexes dbf access makes no real 
sence. I still havnt found the time to start moving away from 
Clipper/Harbour. Application is very complex :-(.


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