Re: ANN: Simple components for Ada v3.9

[tonyg <tonythegair@googlemail.com>]

On Jul 13, 9:06 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:09:26 -0700 (PDT), tonyg wrote:
> > On Jul 12, 9:36 pm, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinri...@online.de> wrote:
> >> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> >>> The version 3.9 has experimental packages for Debian and Fedora linux.
> >>> Note that due to gcc 4.4 bugs not all features are available. See release
> >>> notes:
>
> >>>http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/distributions/components_debian.htm
>
> >> For which debian version are those packages? I assume "testing", because of
> >> gcc 4.4. OTOH you state that "APQ persistence layer is not supported because
> >> APQ is not yet packaged.", but APQ packages are available for "testing". So
> >> I'm a bit confused.
>
> >> Bye...
>
> >>         Dirk
>
> > I think this is because of the status of APQ rather than Dmitrys
> > code . I have used these component  recently to implement a database
> > in odbc and I have to say it is very good and does the job. As to
> > which version, just use the gpr file as part of your gnat-gps project
> > and it works very very nice.
>
> Thanks, but regarding APQ it might indeed be broken. Actually I ceased to
> support APQ since GNAT 3.14, because APQ was not maintained. I happy to see
> that Debian guys want to revive it.
>
> Though I am very disappointed with the present status of DB support in Ada.
> There are too many projects, bindings are too low level. None of them
> attempt to make it platform independent. On the contrary, authors tend to
> be as much DBMS dependent as possible. There was a discussion on this in
> comp.lang.ada, people agreed to disagree.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakovhttp://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Totally - I found it very hard to find something useful, the odbc api
packages you wrote to use with your persistant objects proved very
useful though and I think they are probably the safest, most usable
and thickest binding ada programmers have available at the moment even
though it was originally written for your persistant objects. It
allows not so talented ada programmers like myself to use the gnade
ODBC binding which lets face it is a pretty intimidating if not
complicated beast.