iPhone app possible?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/17/09 8:45 PM, "gary hayenga" <vandg at speakeasy.org> wrote:

Hi Gary,

> Just to store data on the phone itself would be kind of silly.  The
> built in SQLite database is good enough for pretty much everything
> you'd need to do on the device.  Anything that Valentina can do that
> SQLite can't the device just doesn't have enough processing power to
> support anyway.

Disputable :-)
 
I remember 1996-98 years, when computers did have 32MB of RAM,
And HDDs was .. How much?  20-32Gb ?

IPhone today is more powerful right? :)

And point is that Valentina is much more effective of other db engines in
such LIMITED conditions because it uses BitSets and even give you way to use
them. Not only SQL.

Size of iPhone 8/16Gb, and I can bet this year we will see 32Gb,
This is more than DVD based database. Right?

Can we assume that some users may want to have big/huge DBs on iPhone?
Well, I think this is possible.

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And of course another reason to use Valentina for local dbs also -- to have
the same code for both local and remote dbs ...

For me its more silly to write two branches of code
    one for local SqlLite
    second for remote vserver

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> The real value of having it would be communicating with Valentina
> Server via TCP/IP.  Since there are currently *no* database server
> drivers for the iPhone and everything has to be done via a webservice,
> which I personally find a *very* annoying intermediary step that
> should be unnecessary in most cases.
 
> If you could talk to VServer natively then being able to use a
> Valentina database for local storage would be nice also, as you could
> then use the same code to store data locally when you were off-line as
> to store data on the Valentina Server when you were online, and it
> would make syncing much easier.

Exactly. 
 
> Bluetooth anything except mono headsets won't work with the iPhone
> yet.  Unless you're talking about jailbroken devices the official SDK
> doesn't support anything via bluetooth except mono audio input and
> output.  They will eventually I'm sure, but it's probably way down the
> list.

I have some news here.

I was able today without any major troubles compile V4CC for iphone target
with vclient only.


I need yet test it of course. Most probably on link to some iPhone app will
be errors, because I have used in fast way Vshared and Vclient projects
targets that depend on carbon. On the other hand only depending is File
class. Should be not hard break it ...



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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

[I feel the need: the need for speed]