[Qt5-feedback] ORM in Qt5 ?

[daniel.molkentin at nokia.com]

Hi Frederic (and others),

a lot of features proposed either here or in the blog comments is functionality that could be added at any time. One example is a ORM library. I can be added at a later point in time (Qt 5.1).

Also, most probably a lot of requests won't be implemented by Nokia, but rather someone else.
This is something to get used to. Traditionally new releases have triggered the same kind of requests, because only the trolls could get features in. Please think twice.

There is no need to rush things into the .0 release. If you would like to see a certain feature, draft it, develop it, and contribute it (you will soon be able to).

We should rather concentrate on core design issues that you need to get right for b/c reasons. After 5.0 is out (and I agree we should move on quickly, to not have a long gap after 4.8 and to avoid the temptation of serious breakage), we should Release Early, Release Often (tm), and get new features in along the way.

Just my 2 Cents.

Cheers,
  Daniel

On May 12, 2011, at 11:18 , ext Frédéric Meurou wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I've been playing with QtSql and IMHO, the SQL layer is suboptimal, either in querying the database, and in being integrated in a app :
> - from what i've seen, queries should be constructed using JOINs. 
> - from an integration point of view, dealing with foreign keys is a real pain. Although QSqlRelationalTable helps when it comes to displaying information, fetching data across tables using foreing keys requires a lot of overhead. 
> I've used the Django ORM, and it really lessens the dev time. 
> I know there are few Qt ORM projects out there, it would be great to integrate the in the QtSql module. 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Fred
> 
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