[GRASS5] Start planning for GRASS 6.2?

[Paolo Cavallini]

I would vote against HSQLDB, as it needs Java.
All the best.
pc

At 17:53, giovedì 27 ottobre 2005, Michael Barton has probably written:
> Markus,
>
> Actually, I was thinking of file compatibility with OO (a database driver)
> rather than an interface here. IMHO, we still need an attribute management
> interface in GRASS itself.
>
> In OO, if you use the database module ("base") it works much like Access
> and handles very large sets of records. A spreadsheet is not really for
> database work, though I realize that many people with small files use it
> that way.
>
> OO 1.x used dbf files for its default database format. In OO 2.x, they've
> moved to a new system, HSQLDB. The new one can be had as a stand alone dbms
> <http://hsqldb.org/>. As we are talking about implementing more robust
> database implementations for GRASS, I wanted to raise the mention of
> HSQLDB.
>
> Michael
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