Kexi in Q4 2010

Short story: In the last day of 2011 Kexi reached the 2.3 release as the other KOffice applications. Versions 2.4 and newer will be developed distributed within the Calligra suite, meaning it stays within the team formed by the same awesome, welcoming community.

What changed? Calligra widens the scope of the activities to two main things: offering components for 3rd-party developers and enabling deep customizations of the code base, so new applications can be developed. Desktop versions, as before, are the main incarnations of the Calligra applications.

This process has started spontaneously long ago and Kexi is a part of it too. One thing is Kexi Mobile subproject, already active within Kexi as you can see below. Another is the high-level database handling library Predicate, successor of KexiDB. Predicate found its way into KDE Playground's git as Qt-only component with wider scope than QtSQL (e.g. you can also define/create databases). Because of the origins of the Predicate project, I will usually write about it in the same blog entries that are devoted to Kexi.

A short log (based on identi.ca notes):

• (October) Nokia donated maemo-powered N900 phone to Kexi developer Adam Pigg for development of Kexi Mobile. Thanks Suresh!
• (November) News from Predicate front (successor of Kexi database abstraction layer): development of brand new PostgreSQL driver started
• (November) Work is ongoing on the next version of Kexi (2.4), with behind the scenes stuff like implementing more models and views. Also porting drag/drop handling to Qt4 style. Not exciting, but necessary! (Adam).
• Do you know you can submit bug reports for Kexi at bugs.kde.org? A few hints here.
• (December) Predicate goes git!
• Kexi is now part of the Calligra Suite, KOffice successor!
• Large changes in Predicate: libpq-based driver, *natively* escaped strings for unmatched security, code at projects.kde.org. Status at http://community.kde.org/Predicate/Drivers.
• Prototype of Kexi Mobile Reports works
  

  
  
  
  

• What's new in !Kexi 2.3?
• Kexi 2.3 released! This is the last big release within KOffice, 2.4 will be Calligra.
  
  

It's worth to mention that the Development Home Page for Predicate is http://community.kde.org/Predicate and for Kexi is http://community.kde.org/Kexi. I am also contributing to the mother of these wikis, http://community.kde.org/Calligra to make sure you have access the most current information about the development in case you'd like to join us.

And as always: The list of current wishes for Kexi. Add yours! There is no easier way to contribute!