db / gdl2

[David Ayers]

Hello Everyone,

I've just checked the archives.  It has been a while since the first 
time (Janurary or even earlier?) gdl2 was "pre" announced.  Now if I 
understand it correctly, there are still some unresolved leagal issues. 
In the meantime, I was wondering whether we could reactivate (or rather 
intensify) support for the db-libs.

1. Is there a reason why these libraries are installed in 
GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT instead of GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT by default?
2. Is there a reason why the installed header file names 
eoaccess/eoaccess.h & eointerface/eointerface.h aren't named as the 
Openstep files i.e. EOAccess/EOAccess.h and EOInterface/EOInterface.h 
and are there for incompatible for Openstep apps?  (Oops, there is no 
eointerface.h! OK then I'll just refer to the eoaccess/eointerface 
directories and the eoaccess.h file.)

There will be more questions to follow.  If someone is willing to fill 
me in on some of the details and maybe check my changes, I'll try to get 
db back up to par.  (We could handle some of this off the list.)  And 
just maybe, by the time we're finished, we will have gdl2 accessible ;-) 
and the updated db will finally be obsolete!

Cheers,
Dave