Re: Regarding GSoC 2012 project

Hi Dave

Actually I was having my mid-sem exams, so I could not much related to the
project, But in the meantime, I went through
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgAdmin_Internals but I didn't get much
related to the project.

In the project proposal, I had to answer about the project schedule(How
long will the project take? When can you begin work?) but I am still not
much clear about this question. Could you please help me in answering this
question?
Could you also please suggest me about what I should do now related to the
project to strengthen my GSoC application?

Hoping for a favourable reply.

Thanks
Mukesh Kumar Agrawal.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM, mukesh agrawal <mkagrawal18(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Dave
> >
> > As per your suggestions, I went through some of the tutorials of
> wxWidgets
> > and I was also able to run some of the examples given there. I have done
> > somewhat Blackberry and Nokia programming in my networks course and I
> found
> > wxWidgets programming much similar to that.
> >
> > I also came to know that wxWidgets connects with postgres database using
> > psqlODBC driver but in the irc channel of postgres, someone suggested me
> to
> > use libpqxx instead, so I tried this and it is working well. But I didn't
> > get any reading material related to wxWidgets using postgres. It would be
> > really helpful if you please suggest me some reading materials which
> > describe the same.
>
> pgAdmin uses it's own database classes that wrap around libpq (not
> libpqxx). They are very simple to use, and you can grab a connection
> object from virtually any object related to a database in the app. See
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgAdmin_Internals for more details -
> the database classes are in pgadmin/db and pgadmin/include/db in the
> source tree.
>
> > Since I have used yacc for building 'parser for prolog' in my programming
> > languages course, and Bison is much similar to yacc, I think I will be
> able
> > to use Bison. But I have not much idea of how to achieve the goal. It
> would
> > be really helpful if you please explain some steps.
>
> I have no idea - I've never written a parser myself.
>
> > Also in the reply, you have mentioned about VC++ project files and
> Autotools
> > scripts, but I have no idea about this.
>
> I can help there when the time comes.
>
> > Also I am not able to send mails to <pgsql-students.postgresql.org>. Is
> this
> > mailing list working or not?
>
> It should be - but it's pgsql-students(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)
>
>
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Mukesh Kumar Agrawal
Junior Undergraduate
CSE(at)IIT Delhi