Gaby
Personal Databases Manager
<http://gaby.netpedia.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 use 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
Contributions
=============
You are welcome to contribute (comments, fixes, bug reports, code, descfiles,
translations, web space, mailing list, ...).
For Gaby itself : Frederic Peters <fpeters@swing.be>
For the builder : Ron Bessems <R.E.M.W.Bessems@stud.tue.nl>
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 is licensed
through the same licence. Read the COPYING file for the complete license.
--
Frederic Peters - Sat, 29 Apr 2000 12:18:22 +0200
PS: this file looks like the Window Maker README only because I used that one
as model.
