[GRASS5] Re: question about sqlite

[Michael Barton]

DBF is a widely used, standard format--in spite of being old and klunky. It
can be imported or read by a wide variety of other programs (e.g., Open
Office, Excel, Access, Filemaker). It is also the standard table format for
ESRI, MapInfo, and Idrisi. It would be very inconvenient to drop it.

Michael
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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:56:04 +0100
> To: Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>, grassdev <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Re: question about sqlite
> 
> 
> Radim Blazek wrote:
> 
>>> Could you give me a quick overview of what it means to compile GRASS with
>>> sqlite? Here are a couple questions I have.
>>> 
>>> 1) Is it simply a driver that lets GRASS recognize a database/table created
>>> by sqlite in an active sqlite session started in another process, like a
>>> Postgresql table in an active Postgresql session?
>>> 
>>> 2) Does it/can it active an sqlite session from within GRASS?
>>> 
>>> 3) Are there other features that I'm not asking about that I should know?
>> 
>> The sqlite driver works like any other db driver (dbf, pg, mysql, odbc).
> 
> With the addition of SQLite, is there any reason to continue to
> support the DBF driver?
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>