GNADE SQL Client

Version 0.8

Editor M.Erdmann

5.8.2002

This release of the GNADE SQL Client is featuring:

The clients displays all available data sources
The client provides an persitent project file, which means query and table definitions may be saved for later use.
The client allows to execute queries.
The creation of tables is supported.

Supported Database

The GSQL progam has been tested in the software configurations shown below. More confiurations are expected to work with this implementation since it is based upon ODBC.

Component

Description

Version

Distribution/Source of the release

Postgres

PostgreSQL Database

7.0.3

Linux - Redhat 7.0

Linux - SuSe 7.0

Solaris 7

Windows NT/2000

www.postgresql.org

Mimer

Mimer SQL RDBMS

8.2

Solaris 7/8

Linux

Windows NT

www.mimer.com

Copyright, License and Authors

The GNU Public License (GPL) applies with the following extension to all software components in this release

As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from GNADE Ada units, or you link GNADE Ada units or libraries with other files to produce an executable, these units or libraries do not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU Public License.

The documentation has been put under the Free GNU Documentation License.

Even GSQL is assumed to be a part of the GNADE project, the author(s) and copyright holder(s) of the GSQL client are:

Michael Erdmann

Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de

Contact

Bug Reports	http://sourcefore.net/projects/gnade	M.Erdmann
GNADE Discussions	http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/mailman/listinfo/gnade-dev gnade-dev@cert.uni-stuttgart.de	Florian Weimer
Project Page	http://gnade.sourceforge.net/ http://sourcefore.net/projects/gnade	M.Erdmann
Dev. Coordination	Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de	M.Erdmann

New Features


Feature Req,	Short Description	Version	Comments

Restrictions

The application has to run in the same directory as it has been build beause it uses some *.xpm files which located there as well. In the next releases these resources will be a part of the application.
This version is a prerelease there for a lot of debugging outputs are generated and some of the GUI elements are not functioning currently.

Fixed Problems

Please report any found problem via the bug traking system refered at http://gnade.sourceforge.net/ by using the category GSQL.


Bug Ref.	Fixed with Version	Short Description	Comments

Known Problems

Bug Ref.	Short Description	Comments

Installation

The GNADE code and the documentation is distributed in the following files:

File	Contents
gsql-source-0.6.tar.g	Complete GSQL source code as tar file compressed by GNU zip.
gsql-source-0.6.zip	Complete GSQL source code distribution as ZIP file.

The installation of this software requires the following components:

Component	Version	Origin
gzip	1.2.4	GNU
unzip	5.42	Infozip
zip	2.2	Infozip
tar	-	GNU or native
gmake		GNU make

In order to install this source package a GNADE source distirbution has to be installed and configured previously. After this has been done change into the directory contrib and perform the following steps:

Copy the gsql-source package into thw contrib directory
Depending on the file type you like to use execute one of the following commands:

unzip gsql-source-0.6.zip

or

gunzip -c gsql-source-0.6.tar.gz | tar xvf -
change into the directory ./gsql-source-0.6
gmake clean

gmake

Other components

In order to build this application the following components are required:


Component	Version	Source
GtkAda-1.2.12-1	1.2.12-1
GTK	1.2.8	www.gtk.org
Florist	3.13p-7

Contributions

Special regards to the following persons which have contributed to the project:

Document Version: $Date: 2003/11/16 12:11:18 $ $Revision: 1.4 $

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