Bond2 Frequently Asked Questions

Q Does bond work with MYSQL?
A No, at the time of writing bonddb, mysql lacked constraints, views and transactional support. All of thees elements were essentially initially to get bond to work so only postgresql was supported. Once mysql has adquate support for these things a plugin can be developed to enable mysql support.

Q Can bond help me convert my databases from msaccess or VB?
A Bond can make a good replacement for msaccess/vb front ends and i've used it to replace a number of databases. The data needs to be exported to a postgresql database (many good programmes for doing this). And the bondxml file needs to be written from scratch to describe the user interface. Theres no quick way to convert your databases however.

Q Does bond run under windows?
A Not at the moment, though a bit of progresses has been made in getting the some of the libraries compiling and working under mingw. It should be possible without to much difficults to port bond to windows now, it just hasn't been done yet. A interim solution can be running bond though an X Server

Q When will bondhtml be ready?
A After a lot of other things are written. It will proberly done around the bond3 release mark so its some time off. The old bondhtml code was broken and needs a re-write to work with the current new bond.

Q Can i use BOND with Oracle 9i database on Linux?
A No not at hte moment. Adding oracle support is a lot easier than adding mysql support but unforuntly i do not have access to any oracle databases so can not create a plugin for oracle. Once i have access to a oracle database to test and configure bond for then it is possible for this to be done.

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