Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:50:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:26PM -0500 or thereabouts, Bob Billson wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:15:54PM -0500, Paul Morgan penned:
> [I don't have the original post -- not sure who quoted what]
> > > > > I need to create some small databses in postgress (christmas card list,
> > > > > household inventory). What choices do I have for creating user input forms,
> > > > > and reports in Debian?
> > > >
> > > > pgaccess
>
> I keep some simple lists: dates, tasks, books I read/want/own, account
> details. In the spirit of Unix, my first intuition was just created a
> file named "data" and add one "record" per line in a reasonably
> structured way. I parsed it with perl and printed it with a2ps.
>
> Then, I tried 4000 ways in Debian to do it better: I tried all the
> postgres/mysql front-ends, outlook knockoffs, console-only things
> written in ruby, &c. I hated all of them.
>
> So I spent most of 2003 writing my own in my spare time.
> Here's a screenshot:
> http://home.comcast.net/~40101.nospam/pim.png
>
> It stores data in XML, is intended for small databases, single user, but
> it's indexed and has referential integrity. There's keyboard shortcuts
> for everything. It starts fast, it's fast to navigate and slam in some
> data, hit save and get out.
>
> It's my own build system: all you start with is some C files, no
> makefiles at all. One file is called proj.c: type "gcc proj.c; ./a.out;
> ./proj" and it does all the automakish stuff. Type "./proj c" and it
> deletes that crap and you just have a flat list of C files. It's pretty
> cheasy but I like it.
>
> Over the course of the year I started over 20 times, but around October
> I got inspired and got something that works. I guess I have to open the
> kimino now so y'all can tell me how much it sucks before I can get to
> the "next level":
>
> Here it is. Be nice with your comments please. It meets its design
> goals -- they are probably not the design goals you expect -- I'm a
> pretty wierd guy, you'll probably think it's super-wierd:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~40101.nospam/x-0.1.tar.bz2
>
I spent a few dozen sec.s looking at this. I didn't see how to install it,
and I am no good at all at just reading the code. Can you update it with
a README file?
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@peakpeak.com
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