The journey for the Best Sqlite tool in the world continues. Yes, I prepared SVN snapshot packages (cheers to buildservice team) for public testing yesterday. Look at homepage or e.g. kde-apps.org. But it is not the main topic today.

When I browsed sf.net to handle tarballs and some binary stuff (ghosh, it’s damn slow) I’ve found some new and strange projects — tons of new sqlite managers.

Woohoo, it looks like people are overfilled enough with writting DownloadLyricsFromFooBarSiteForAmarok 0.1 scripts (do you remember the age of “This is Yet Another Cool Text Editor I Wrote”?). Now they’re writting sqlite managers. OK, no problem — you know, concurrency and diversity is a good thing. Let me say only one sentence: “don’t you think, guys, you’re wasting time?”

I know you’re feeling cool writting OSS but it’s frustrating for me. Oh, sit down, an old man will tell you a story…

My sqlite manager started after weeks of testing all (ok, maybe not all but tons of them) available tools. I’ve selected one and patched it. And believe me I did not care about language or toolkit library. Unfortunately the original author did not accept these patches (he did not answer to be exact) so then I forked it. Do you see the word “then”?

It’s all about cooperation. Of course I cannot ban anybody to write any clone of SupaDupaSw or chose for example Python over C++ or whatever upside down. You can do what you want but we could be much farther together (doh, it sounds gay).

OK, it’s enough. Nevertheless I hope you can feel my despair.

Within this fragile mind
I am alone again
Me, myself and I
Echoes pounds my head
Shapeless forms everywhere

P.S.: Is there anybody experienced in Cmake, MSVC/MinGW and Oracle Client linking on Windows? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

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