Gaby
Personal Databases Manager
<http://gaby.sourceforge.net>
by
Ron Bessems & Frederic Peters
Though many full-fledged SQL database systems exist
for Linux, both commercial and Open Source, these
large client-server applications are overkill for
managing a single user's personal data. (...)
-- Larry Ayers, in Linux Gazette #35
Description
Gaby is a small personal databases manager for Linux using GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org) and Gnome (if available, http://www.gnome.org) for its GUI.
It was designed to provide straight-forward access to databases a 'normal' user would like (addresses, books, ...) while keeping the ability to easily create databases for other needs. On a technical side it was designed with extensibility in mind and thus relies a lot on plug-ins.
Documentation
- README files all over the source tree have info related to the stuff in the directories. They could be interesting but most useful informations are stored in the main directory;
- INSTALL provides common installation procedure, informations about required libraries and documentation about configure flags;
- ChangeLog holds all the changes made in the source;
- NEWS is a summary ChangeLog talking only about user visible changes;
- TODO is a list of tasks I intend to do so you know where we are going;
- BUGS shouldn't exist.
Aside those traditional files there is the doc/ directory that holds something intended to be a full documentation about Gaby (user's guide, advanced user's guide and developer's guide).
And don't miss the documentation in builder/ if you intend to use it.
Internationalization
This is a goal since I know you don't speak english fluently (don't you ?). This means that any database you could create can be internationalized (ie. the same database will run in Spanish in Spain and in Finnish in Finland (pick your favorite country)).
For the current status or if you want to translate Gaby in a new language you should refer to README.translations
Support
You can send mail directly to me (fpeters@tiscalinet.be) (try to put "gaby" in your subject line) or to the mailing list: gaby-user@lists.sourceforge.net (this is a new mailing list created about the time of the 2.0 release; there is not a lot of traffic but its main advantage is that it allows my answers to be shared among users...)
Contributions
You are welcome to contribute (comments, fixes, bug reports, code, descfiles, translations, ...):
Send anything you want to Frederic Peters <fpeters@tiscalinet.be>
Note : Don't forget to mention version, configure options, ... when sending bug reports (it really helps) (you should also read the BUGS file).
Copyrights & Disclaimers
Gaby is copyrighted by Frederic Peters and is licensed through the GNU General Public Licence. The builder is copyrighted by Ron Bessems and Frederic Peters and is licensed through the same licence. Read the COPYING file for the complete license.
--
Frederic Peters - Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:31:33 +0100