[SEH] -- A very nice looking personal project/to do list management utility, with Gantt display and notification/reminder features. [http://spg.ucolick.org/cgi-bin/Tcl//xtask.cgi]

[http://www.ucolick.org/~de/Tcl/pictures/xtask/xt.Near.adj.gif]

The chief drawback it seems to me is the fact that it uses a Sybase database for storage/SQL (via [Sybtcl]).  I'd like to see a more lightweight (and freer) option.

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[MC], 13 Jan 2005: I downloaded the Xtask tarball, but it doesn't come with any SQL statements to create the Sybase database tables that it uses.  (Obviously though a careful study of the source code should make clear what the schema needs to look like.)  

As to making it work with other databases my (biased? :-) recommendation would be to either refactor the code to use [nstcl] directly or write a thin wrapper to act as a facade over nstcl providing a [Sybtcl] interface (facades upon facades, oh my!).  Then theoretically you could add a 1 line [[package require]] to the start of Xtask.tcl without modifying any of the other code and have it work with SQLite, Postgres, Oracle, Solid, or anything [TclODBC] can talk to.

''Yikes, skimming through this, IMO this illustrates why SQL can be a pretty awkward fit for Tcl scripts.  Introducing a pluggable SQL structure will not simplify it, and to me it's like asking for the ability to switch scripting languages later... -[jcw]''

[RLH] Why not use an embedded solution? Either SQLite or Metakit, both which have great Tcl support?