From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.129.82.1 with SMTP id g1mr2362659ywb.28.1464084997176; Tue, 24 May 2016 03:16:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.5.183 with SMTP id 52mr34647otd.2.1464084997104; Tue, 24 May 2016 03:16:37 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!88no5958620qga.1!news-out.google.com!uv8ni452igb.0!nntp.google.com!q6no807450igz.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 03:16:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=109.149.92.78; posting-account=04rmagoAAABZ9PN7u3MdbKIs6DPG57E- NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.149.92.78 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2bb3e06f-889f-4763-914d-9b5983bbb381@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada From: Graham Stark Injection-Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 10:16:37 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:30469 Date: 2016-05-24T03:16:36-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, 13 May 2016 21:37:16 UTC+1, jrmarino wrote: > Hey guys, I know there are several options for Ada to interface with data= bases, but I wasn't happy with any of them for various reasons and thus cre= ated yet another option to scratch my itch. I was aiming at a consistent i= nterface to which the various drivers adapt. With some care, the database = backends should be interchangeable. >=20 > So far I've created drivers for MySQL and SQLite and the driver for Postg= reSQL is next on my list. I'd like to eventually support others such as Fi= rebird, MSSQL, Oracle, etc., but those will be very low priority for me ove= r the next year. Contributions are welcome of course -- It's been released= under the developer- and commercial-friendly ISC licence. >=20 > I've spent a lot of time documenting the interface and providing a lot of= real examples. If you are at all looking for something like this, I recom= mend that you spend a few minutes going through the descriptions and exampl= es of all the functions: >=20 > http://jrmarino.github.io/AdaBase/ >=20 > It's been developed on DragonFly and FreeBSD, and I haven't tested it on = Windows yet, but I will. it's already available for BSD users, see: http:/= /www.freshports.org/databases/adabase >=20 > I believe AdaBase is already mature for MySQL and SQLite, but reports of = issues will be welcome. I'm active on github, so issues and pull requests = will be dispositioned quickly if you wish to leverage those tools. >=20 > Hopefully other people will find this project useful! >=20 > -- John I'm late to this. I've just downloaded this and it looks a great thing, exa= ctly what's needed. It's a shame that so many subsequent emails have been a= bout formatting issues. Graham