[GRASS-dev] sqlite and grass64

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> writes:

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 > AFAICT, SQLite has considerably more functionality than our current
 > dbf driver. I like it for a lot of reasons. A couple issues to
 > consider, however.

 > dbf is a widely recognized file format that can be read or imported
 > by very many other applications directly. While the SQLite database
 > engine can export into several interchange format, the native SQLite
 > file format is much less widely read by other applications.

 > Related to this, GRASS is very weak in interactive data management
 > capabilities. This constantly comes up when I demo GRASS. A saving
 > grace in this situation is the portability of the dbf attribute table
 > format. I can tell people that they can easily manage the attribute
 > tables in OpenOffice, for example. This is not the case with SQLite.

	Not for the general side of the problem, but Google shows quite
	a few links when queried for ``sqlite openoffice''.

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