This page records the enhancements the Babase front end requires, and possibly includes priorities. We can also use it to list front-ends under consideration and their pros and cons.
Although the front-end has not been selected, none of the front-ends has the following features, that at this time we believe we want:
- A 'find' feature for the editing and updating of rows.
- Rapid display of large amounts of information.
- The ability to download data directly from a query without having to load the data into a table first.
- The ability to insert/update/delete the database through views in the same way it can be updated through tables. There are two catageories of functionality here, individual row maintanence and bulk uploads.
- Bulk uploads is useful for the regular addition of data. It can be worked around by programming custom applications for data upload (or by use of the Unix interface, which does allow bulk uploads to views.)
Individual row maintance is useful for manual corrections. It can be worked around by using sql to update the database rather than a [wiki:Graphical_user_interface GUI].