On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 18:59, Matt Alexander wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
> > If you don't do a lot of programming I'm going to suggest OpenOffice for 
> > the front end and mysql or SQLite for the backend. If you do a lot of 
> > Programming I'm going to suggest XUL for the front end and MySQL or 
> > PostgreSQL for the backend. Both solutions will work on both platforms. 
> > The XUL solution will work on more than just those two and would proably 
> > be easier to extend later. Remember to first check and see if there is 
> > already an opensource solution out there. (perhaps you can just help 
> > with one that is)
> 
> I'm curious...  I know absolutely nothing about XUL, but I think it's what
> Mozilla is written in?  Anywho, is it possible to write an app that would
> run in Mozilla and store all the data in SQLite?  I do some web
> development and when I want to locally install my app then it means
> installing Perl or PHP, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite, installing
> Perl modules, configuring Apache, configuring the db, etc., etc., etc.
> 
> It would be sweet if I could simply use Mozilla for the framework of my
> program along with maybe Javascript, HTML, and SQLite, and not worry about
> a web server at all.  I could then give someone my program and it would be
> relatively easy to get running on almost any platform.  Possible?

Look at GNU Enterprise forms.  It does what you want today.  It can use
SQL Lite or a number of other databases.  You can do complex things with
Python (instead of Java Script).  It is highly portable and XML just
like XUL.

It is too late and I am too tired to fully explain.  Just check it out
for yourself. :)
-- 
Derek Neighbors
GNU Enterprise
http://www.gnuenterprise.org
derek@gnue.org

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