GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 100520
Configure ODBC Data Sources
Last modified: 2012-02-28 11:58:19 UTC
Add the ability edit ODBC Data Sources via Mergeant. Currently, you're able to configure data sources for various libgda providers. What if the provider I am using is ODBC? I might be able to configure the libgda ODBC provider, but what about the actual ODBC Data Source? unixODBC has a command-line utility odbcinst to do this. Could mergeant be modified to configure ODBC data sources via odbcinst? GNOME 2.0 needs a GUI configuration tool for ODBC data sources. I think Mergeant can do this.
Rodrigo mentioned there is a GUI tool to configure ODBC Data Sources on Linux named gODBCConfig. This tool is a gtk+ widget that works like the ODBC Data Sources wizard on Windows. Where can I get this tool? If it is written only for gtk+ 1.x, can we port it to gtk+ 2.0? We don't have to recreate an ODBC Data Sources wizard in Mergeant, but I think we should have the ability to load this ODBC Data Sources wizard from within Mergeant by clicking a button. For instance, if you are configuring a data source in Mergeant, and you choose a Provider of "ODBC", then a button with title "Configure ODBC Data Source" should be enabled.
We need the libgtkodbcconfig library to be ported to GNOME 2 first. As soon as we get that, we can just load that to have the full ODBC admin tool.
mergeant development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.